ON CAMERA, A RUSSIAN AIRSTRIKE DESTROYS A UKRAINIAN HOSPITAL

According to local official Pavlo Kyrylenko, a Russian air strike on Wednesday badly damaged a paediatric and maternity hospital in the besieged Ukrainian coastal city of Mariupol, hurting at least 17 people.

On Twitter, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky showed severe wreckage at the major medical complex, including blown-out windows and ripped-out internal walls, which he claimed was caused by a "direct strike by Russian troops."

Adults and children were "under the wreckage," he claimed.

"So far, the hospital has 17 wounded personnel," Kyrylenko, the chairman of the southeastern Donetsk area, said later in a Facebook video.

He went on to say that "so far no children have been injured" and that "no deaths have occurred."

On Facebook, Kyrylenko said the attack "literally demolished" a maternity hospital in the city's centre that also included a paediatric unit.

He claimed that a Russian pilot knew exactly where the bomb was going to land.

Russian military have surrounded Mariupol on the Azov Sea in southern Ukraine, bombarding the city despite assurances of a ceasefire to allow people to flee.

The evacuation of the hospital was captured on video by Kyrylenko and city officials, and included a woman on a stretcher and a woman being carried by two guys as she walked out.

They show a massive hole in the hospital's yard, tree branches snapped and burning cars, as well as cladding ripped from the building's face.

Zelensky termed the strike a "atrocity" and demanded that a no-fly zone be implemented over the country once more. NATO, on the other hand, has declined to do so.

"There are few things more deprave than targeting the poor and defenceless," British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said of the incident.

 

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