“The maternity hospital in the city center, the hospital, the children’s ward and the therapy – were all destroyed in a Russian air raid on Mariupol. Literally,” KIrilenko wrote on his Facebook page.
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Mariupol City Council reports that the damage after the attack is enormous.
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“The building of the medical institution where the children were recently treated has been completely destroyed. Information about the children affected is being clarified,” the council said in a statement.
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Mariupol has been besieged by Russian invaders who are bombing the city despite a promised ceasefire to allow civilians to flee the city.
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Mariupol. Direct strike of Russian troops on the maternity hospital. People under the rubble. Children under the rubble. This is atrocity! How much longer will the world be complicit in ignoring terror? Close the sky immediately! Stop the killings immediately! You have power. But you seem to be losing humanity. pic.twitter.com/xEFndMPqPK
– Volodymyr Zelenskyy (@ZelenskyyUa) March 9, 2022
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Meanwhile, Luke Harding, a journalist for The Guardian, quoted Serhiy Orlov, deputy mayor of Mariupol, as saying that what was happening in the city, which was under constant firing by the occupiers, was a war crime.
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“[Krievijas diktators Vladimirs] Putin plans to get Ukraine without the Ukrainians. Russia’s attacks are not just treacherous and brutal. It’s a war crime, “said Orlov.
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He also stated that the occupiers had deliberately attacked the evacuation corridor to prevent the evacuation of peaceful residents from the city. Approximately 200,000 civilians are expected to be evacuated from Mariupol, but only 2,000 to 3,000 people a day can be evacuated. The city also lacks buses.
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Orlov also said that more than 1,100 peaceful city residents had lost their lives in the occupiers’ attacks so far. They are allegedly buried in mass graves. This information is not independently verified.
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