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David Beckham's Instagram stories show Ukrainian hospital bomb shelter in Unicef takeover

Guardian, 21 Mar 2022
David Beckham's Instagram Stories showed the life of a Ukrainian hospital bomb shelter when the former footballer  handed over control of his account to a doctor working in the city of Kharkiv.
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Throughout Sunday, videos and photographs on Beckam's Instagram stories showed the new routine Iryna, a child anaesthesiologist and head of the regional perinatal centre, after her patients were forced to seek shelter from the Russian invasion.

Iryna showed Beckham’s 71.5 million followers the cramped basement where all pregnant women and new mothers were evacuated to  as Beckham, an ambassador for Unicef since 2005, urged his followers to donate to the charity, which is working in Ukraine to provide families with access to clean water and food, delivering ready-to-use kits to maternity hospitals and ensuring child protections services continue

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