"Show this to Putin," said a doctor, desperately trying to revive the tiny, pale and lifeless body in front of him, as those around him wept. "The eyes of this child, and crying doctors".
A young girl had been rushed into hospital following the Russian shelling of Mariupol in southern Ukraine. The attack had left her with fatal injuries, her pyjamas - decorated with cartoon unicorns - now soaked in blood. Her injured parents sobbed outside the ambulance as the doctor gently closed her eyes, when it became clear she couldn't be saved.
She was just six-years-old.
Tragically, hers is not the only young life to have been lost in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. On Monday, the besieged country's president Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that 16 Ukrainian children had been killed in the conflict, with another 45 injured. Over 350 innocent civilians are also now believed to have died.
"Every crime, every shelling by the occupiers bring our partners and us even closer," he added.
The statistics are harrowing, but as the stories behind those killed are revealed, the true tragedy and human cost of this conflict is laid bare.
Among the fatalities to be named is a girl called Polina - believed to be around nine or 10 years old - who was in her final year of primary school in Kyiv.
She was shot dead on a street in the north-west of the capital, when a Russian sabotage and reconnaissance group opened fire on her family's car. Her parents were also killed in the attack, while her brother was taken to hospital, and her sister remains in intensive care.
Another young victim, Alisa Hlans ,was one of six people who died after her kindergarten in the small town of Okhtyrka, in Ukraine's north-east, was attacked on the second day of the invasion.
Just three months away from her eighth birthday, she was fatally wounded and would never make it home from school, from her injuries in hospital on Saturday.
The same day, a young boy was also killed when a block of flats was shelled just outside the country's second city Kharkiv, in an attack that sparked fires across the block.
Five members of patrolman Oleg Fedko's family were killed as the first Russian troops rolled in from Crimea towards the city of Kherson in southern Ukraine.
While the circumstances remain unclear, the family had reportedly been trying to escape the advancing Russians in two cars - with Oleg staying behind in Kerson - when they came under fire just outside the city.
While those in the car shouted that there were children on board, shots rang out and Oleg's wife Irina and his two children - Sofia, 6, and Ivan, who was just a few weeks old - were killed, along with two of their grandparents.
These tragedies are truly harrowing, and sadly, they are unlikely to be the last from this bloody conflict.
But it is not just through injury and loss of life that the lives of these young ones and their families are being changed forever, with heartbreaking photos showing fathers saying tearful goodbyes to their children as they stay behind to fight for their country.
Men aged between 18 and 60 have been banned from leaving the country, forcing them to bid farewell to their families, not knowing if they will ever see them again.
One video, which has already been viewed millions of times on Twitter, shows a little girl and her father distraught as they say goodbye to each other, with the man's family being sent away from the danger while he stays to fight.
The sadness is overwhelming, and the situation nightmarish. But this is the tragic reality for those in the Ukraine.
While it is feared that the worst is yet to come, through its aggression, Russia has already destroyed the lives of millions - many of whom are too young to know it.
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