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Ukraine hospital attack kills three, wounds 17
Updated On: 11 March, 2022 08:43 AM IST | Mariupol | Agencies
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says there were no patients there; bombs also fell on two hospitals in another city west of the country’s capital, Kyiv
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Ukrainian emergency employees and volunteers carry an injured pregnant woman from a maternity hospital that was damaged by shelling in Mariupol on Wednesday. Pic/AP
An airstrike on a hospital in the port of Mariupol killed three people, including a child, the city council said Thursday, and Russian forces intensified their siege of Ukrainian cities, even as the top diplomats from both sides met for the first time since the war began. The attack a day earlier in the besieged southern city wounded 17 people, including women waiting to give birth, doctors and children buried in the rubble. Bombs also fell on two hospitals in another city west of the capital, Kyiv.
The World Health Organisation said it has confirmed 18 attacks on medical facilities since the Russian invasion began two weeks ago. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said the Mariupol strike trapped children and others under debris. “A children’s hospital. A maternity hospital,” Zelensky said in his nightly video address, switching to Russian to express horror at the strike. “What kind of country is this, the Russian Federation, which is afraid of hospitals, afraid of maternity hospitals, and destroys them?”
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