David Beckham’s social media accounts have been taken over by a Ukrainian doctor working with pregnant women, in order to showcase the situation inside a hospital in Kharkiv.
On Instagram, the former England football captain’s 71 million followers were shown images and videos taken by or featuring Iryna, the head of the perinatal centre in the city.
The takeover was organised by the children’s charity Unicef, for which Beckham is a goodwill ambassador, and the stark footage shows how much Iryna’s role has changed since the start of the Russian invasion.
Iryna has been sharing the difficulties of trying to do her job while coping with the threat of airstrikes
This includes the need to set up beds for pregnant women in a windowless basement with pipes running across the ceiling, to lessen the risk of them or their children being caught up in
