It's a fake news war on the Mariupol rubble

 A pregnant woman carried away on a stretcher by rescuers in the smoking ruins of the newly bombed Mariupol Children's Hospital.

It is the symbolic image of one of the darkest pages of the Russian invasion of Ukraine which does not spare newborn children and those who have yet to be born and which many already inscribe in the war crimes list.

But the war is also being fought on the snapshots of the tragedy, and the propaganda bombs hit the ruins of the Mariupol pediatric hospital today.

in a video message on Telegram, calling the attack "beyond atrocity".

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False, "the Mariupol children's hospital was used as the base of the Azov battalion" (one of the nationalist military units of the Ukrainian army, ed) retorted the Russian Foreign Minister Serghei Lavrov from Antalya.

Moreover, according to the head of diplomacy in Moscow, Russia has provided the UN Security Council since March 7 "with evidence that the hospital in question had long been requisitioned by the Azov battalion and other radicals. pregnant women and staff had been sent off. "

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    "They are lying knowing they are lying, as they always do", relaunched Zelensky,

while news arrives that three people died in the attack, including a girl.

    The machine of disinformation works at full speed and fake or presumed montages chase each other on social media trying to bend the images for use and consumption of opposing files.

So when the video taken by a Russian drone that would show the presence of Ukrainian militias on the hospital arrives on Twitter and Facebook, the Open site starts a detailed fact-checking and demonstrates, using Google maps, that the video is fake and the alleged Ukrainian military posts are located in buildings on the opposite side of the city.

According to the Russian embassy in Great Britain, however, the photo of a woman with a bloody face escaping from the hospital with the blankets on is false.

"It is the beauty blogger Marianna Podgurskaya. In reality she played the roles of both pregnant women in the photos", writes the diplomatic office on its Twitter profile, underlining that the shots are by the "propagandist" photographer Evgeniy Maloletka and not by rescuers and witnesses.

You support the Russian embassy in Italy, which defines the "alleged destruction" of the hospital as "the height of cynicism and the campaign of lies".

    And while Monsignor Sviatoslv Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church, speaks of "heartbreaking" images of the bombing and photos from the WorldView commercial satellite show the damage to civilian infrastructure, mixed signals are coming from the Kremlin.

"We will certainly ask our army why, of course, we do not have clear information on what happened there," spokesman Dmitry Peskov said at a press conference in the morning.

In the afternoon, the Russian Defense Ministry adjusted the game by dismissing the attack as a "provocative staging".

    The President of the European Commission

wants to see this clearly and has called for a "full investigation" into an "inhuman" bombing