CONTENT WARNING: A Russian airstrike has devastated a maternity hospital in the city of Mariupol, leaving at least 17 people wounded. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the strike trapped children and others under the rubble. 9News DETAILS:
A Russian airstrike has devastated a maternity hospital in the besieged port city of Mariupol amid growing warnings from the West that Moscow's invasion is about to take a more brutal and indiscriminate turn.The ground shook more than two kilometres away when the Mariupol complex was hit by a series of blasts that blew out windows and ripped away much of the front of one building.An injured pregnant woman is taken from the bombed maternity and children's hospital in Mariupol.
"Today Russia committed a huge crime," said Volodymir Nikulin, a top regional police official, standing in the ruins. "It is a war crime without any justification."Calling the siege of Mariupol "beyond an atrocity," he used his nightly video address to urge the West to impose even tougher sanctions, so Russia "no longer has any possibility to continue this genocide.
It was not immediately clear whether anyone was able to leave other cities, but people streamed out of Kyiv's suburbs, many headed for the city centre, as explosions were heard in the capital and air raid sirens sounded repeatedly. "We have a short window of time at the moment," said Yevhen Nyshchuk, a member of Ukraine's territorial defence forces. "Even if there is a cease-fire right now, there is a high risk of shells falling at any moment."
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