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Battle for Mariupol: Zelenskyj accuses Russia of having bombed the maternity ward

2022-03-09T16:51:56.851Z


In the embattled city of Mariupol, the Russian army is said to have flown an airstrike on a maternity ward. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy tweeted that children were buried under the rubble.


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Screenshot from a video recording of the hospital in Mariupol

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Ukraine accuses Russia of attacking a children's hospital with a maternity ward in the embattled Ukrainian port of Mariupol.

The local council shared that several bombs had hit the hospital.

"The destruction is colossal," they said.

The information could not initially be checked by an independent body.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shared a video of the alleged attack on Twitter.

In it you can see destroyed rooms, a devastated inner courtyard and how several people leave the building that was hit.

He wrote that a maternity ward had been hit.

“People, children are under the rubble.

war crimes!

How much longer will the world be an accomplice that ignores terror?

Now close the sky!

You have the power, but you seem to be losing your humanity.”

Catastrophic conditions in Mariupol

The situation in Mariupol has been escalating for days.

Hundreds of thousands of residents have been seeking shelter from regular Russian bombing raids for the past week, without water or electricity.

The phone lines are down, cutting the city off from the outside world.

The Red Cross describes the situation in the port city, which is completely surrounded by Russian troops, as "apocalyptic".

Thousands of Ukrainians are desperate for information about their family and friends who have been displaced or possibly killed in the war.

The deputy mayor of the port city speaks of a "genocide", according to a "Guardian" reporter.

Mariupol is under "constant Russian fire".

1,170 people have already been killed.

47 bodies were buried in a mass grave today.

No water, no heating, no electricity, no gas, the residents drink snow and burn firewood.

It's "medieval."

Two weeks ago, Russia brutally invaded Ukraine.

Since then there has been war.

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Source: spiegel

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