17 injured as Russian airstrike hits maternity hospital | By: Adebayo Akinkunmi

A maternity and youngsters’s hospital in the important thing Ukrainian port metropolis of Mariupol, the place greater than 400,000 individuals are stranded have been hit by a Russian airstrike, Ukraine says.

Seventeen folks had been wounded within the assault, together with ladies in labour, mentioned regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shared a video of what he described because the “direct strike of Russian troops” on the maternity hospital in Mariupol on Wednesday March 9.

“Folks, youngsters are below the wreckage. Atrocity! How for much longer will the world be an confederate ignoring terror? Shut the sky proper now! Cease the killings! You could have energy however you appear to be shedding humanity.” Zelenskyy tweeted

A regional official advised Ukrainian media that a minimum of 17 folks had been injured, together with workers and sufferers.

Pavlo Kyrylenko, the top of the Donetsk regional administration which incorporates the port metropolis of Mariupol, mentioned no deaths had been confirmed, and there have been no confirmed accidents amongst youngsters. He mentioned the assault occurred throughout an agreed ceasefire with the Russian facet, in line with Interfax Ukraine.

The Mariupol metropolis council mentioned the strike had precipitated “colossal injury”, and revealed footage displaying burned out buildings, destroyed automobiles and an enormous crater outdoors the hospital. The BBC has verified the situation of the movies.

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