According to Ukraine, 17 people have been injured in an attack on a maternity hospital in Mariupol. Russia blames Ukraine for the country’s humanitarian catastrophe.
As the war continues, the situation of the strainers becomes more and more insecure. Ukraine has been accusing Russia of bombing civilian targets all along, but now the attacks are said to have already hit a children’s hospital.
The town of Mariupol, on the shores of the Asova Sea, is besieged and hundreds of thousands of people are expected to be waiting to get out of the town.
Russian military forces continued firing on the city on Wednesday, and Ukrainian sources said the airstrike also targeted the city’s children’s hospital and the hospital’s maternity ward.
At least 17 people are said to have been injured, some of them women who had given birth.
– Russia made air strikes during the ceasefire. Civilians were then scheduled to escape to safety from the city, the governor of the area Pavlo Kyrylenko said the news agency Reuters.
Russia is blaming Ukraine for everything
Russia, meanwhile, blames Ukraine for the failure of the ceasefire. According to it, Ukrainian troops have fired on Russian soldiers during the ceasefires.
According to the World Health Organization, 18 attacks have already been carried out on health care in Ukraine, such as hospitals and ambulances. Ten people have been killed and 16 injured.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, nearly 180,000 Ukrainians have been evacuated from Ukraine to the Russian side since the start of the war. No western source supports the estimate.
According to Ukraine, at least 1,170 civilians were killed in Mariupol during the Russian siege. The city is in dire need of water and food.