Russian forces have reportedly bombed a children’s and maternity hospital in the southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, according to multiple reports.
Footage posted by Ukrainian authorities shows the devastation after Russia dropped several bombs on the hospital.
“The destruction is enormous. The building of the medical facility where the children were treated recently is completely destroyed. Information on casualties is being clarified,” the council said.
“A maternity hospital in the city center, a children’s ward and department of internal medicine … all these were destroyed during the Russian air strike on Mariupol. Just now,” said Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk regional administration.
The number of victims as a result of the Russian attack is still is being clarified,” local police said
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the airstrike on the hospital as “an atrocity.”
“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?” Zelensky said on his Telegram account.
The president again directed his anger at NATO for refusing to declare a no-fly zone over Ukraine, saying “Close the sky right now! Stop the killings! You have power but you seem to be losing humanity.”
Watch the report below from the BBC in London.
