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Russia has denied firing on civilian targets following the bombing of a hospital in Mariupol but claimed the Kremlin would look into the incident. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, asked for comment in the immediate aftermath, told Reuters: “Russian forces do not fire on civilian targets.” But on Thursday he said the Kremlin would look into the incident.
“We will definitely ask our military, because you and I don’t have clear information about what happened there,” Peskov said. “And the military are very likely to provide some information.” However, other Russian officials rejected the bombing as fake news. “This is information terrorism,” foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said. Meanwhile, Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, today claimed that there have long been no women or children at the hospital, only armed radicals.
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