New Delhi: A Russian airstrike targeted at a maternity and children’s hospital left 17 injured in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol reported ANI. President Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelensky shared a video of the wreckage of the hospital on Twitter, he called the attack ‘an atrocity’.
Mariupol. Direct strike of Russian troops at the maternity hospital. People, children are under the wreckage. Atrocity! How much longer will the world be an accomplice ignoring terror? Close the sky right now! Stop the killings! You have power but you seem to be losing humanity. pic.twitter.com/FoaNdbKH5k
– Volodymyr Zelenskyy (@ZelenskyyUa) March 9, 2022
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“Today is the day that defines everything. It defines who is on which side. Russian bombs fell on a children’s hospital and maternity hospital in Mariupol. As of now, 17 people are injured. Rescuers are still going through the debris,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was quoted by ANI.
“Dropping a bomb on a maternity hospital — it’s the ultimate proof that what is happening is genocide of Ukrainians. Europeans, you can’t say you didn’t see what is happening. You have to tighten the sanctions until Russia can’t continue their savage war,” Zelensky said further.
According to United Nations data, at least 1,335 civilians have been confirmed injured or killed – 474 killed and 861 injured.
Despite the Russian forces agreeing to the ceasefire to allow citizens to evacuate Mariupol on the Azov Sea in southeastern Ukraine is surrounded by Russian forces, who have bombarded the city, according to AFP.
According to the report, videos were posted by Kyrylenko and the city authorities showed the evacuation of the hospital including a woman on a stretcher and a woman being supported by two men as she walks out.
They show a huge crater in the yard of the hospital, branches snapped from trees and burning cars, while cladding has been ripped from the building’s facade.
The situation is even worse in Mariupol, a strategic city of 430,000 people on the Sea of Azov that has been encircled by Russian forces for the past week. Efforts to evacuate residents and deliver badly needed food, water and medicine failed Tuesday because of what the Ukrainians said were continued Russian attacks, reported AP.
The city took advantage of a lull in the shelling Wednesday to hurriedly bury 70 people some of them were soldiers, but most were civilians. The burial was conducted without any ceremony without the presence of mourners or family.