Barbarian”, “immoral”, “war crime”: the shelling of a pediatric hospital by Russian forces in the besieged city of Mariupol provoked outrage from Ukrainian authorities and Westerners, as the Russian army closed in Thursday from Kiev, according to the Ukrainian General Staff.
The attack, which left 17 injured, came on the eve of talks today in Turkey between the Russian and Ukrainian foreign ministers, their first face-to-face since the start of the Russian offensive in Ukraine. two weeks ago.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who condemned a “war crime”, shared videos showing the destruction – after an air raid – of the establishment, which housed a maternity hospital and a pediatric hospital, in Mariupol, a strategic port on the Sea of Azov. Interiors of buildings can be seen blown away, debris, sheets of paper and shards of glass littering the ground.