Ukrainian medic Mariana Mamonova, who was pregnant in Russian captivity, gives birth

Diana Krechetova Staff writer for Ukrainska Pravda.Zhyttia

Mariana Mamonova, the military medic and defender of the Azovstal steelworks who was nine months pregnant when she was released from Russian captivity, gave birth to a baby girl on the night of 24-25 September.

Source: Oleksandr Tretiak, the Mayor of Rivne, on Telegram

Tretiak said Mariana's baby daughter weighed 3.25 kg [7 lb 2 oz] and is 57 cm long.

Quote: "Mariana Mamonova, the imprisoned medic who returned home this week, has given birth to a daughter", Tretiak wrote.

Further details are still unknown, but Iryna Horavska, General Director of the Volyn Oblast Territorial Medical Association for the Protection of Motherhood and Childhood, said that Mariana and her baby were doing well.

The full-scale war was already going on when Mariana found out she was pregnant. At that time, she was in Mariupol.

Mariana's sister Oksana told Ukrainska Pravda.Zhyttia that the doctor did not want to find out the sex of her unborn baby beforehand, preferring to have a surprise.

Military medic Mariana Mamonova was captured on 4 April. She was released on 21 September, with 214 other prisoners, in exchange for Viktor Medvedchuk and 55 Russian soldiers.

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