BANDAGED and bloodied, a mum nurses the baby she saved from Russian shellfire by shielding the tot with her own body.

       Brave Olga — badly injured by shrapnel in Putin’s blitz on Kyiv — cradles her month-old child as a man thought to be her partner comforts them.

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       Olga saved her baby from Russian shellfire by shielding the tot with her own body 2

       The two were being cared for yesterday at Kyiv’s Ohmatdyt children’s hospital

       Amazingly, the baby was believed to be unhurt thanks to the quick-thinking courage of its Ukrainian mother.

       The two were being cared for yesterday at Kyiv’s Ohmatdyt children’s hospital.

       Journalist Anastasiia Lapatina, who works on English-language newspaper the Kyiv Independent, said the baby was well.

       She added that the pair were being treated at Ohmatdyt children’s hospital in the city.

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       She also said the baby was unharmed.

       Olga, pictured with a man thought to be her partner, was wrapped in a foil blanket on a hospital bed as medics attended to her.

       It comes as Ukrainian forces killed another top Russian general, the fifth to die since Putin's troops invaded the country last month.

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