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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