KYIV (HRNW) – An apparent Russian air strike destroyed a children s hospital in the besieged Ukrainian port of Mariupol on Wednesday, triggering renewed global outrage two weeks into Moscow s invasion of its ex-Soviet neighbour.
The strike came as Mariupol s mayor said more than 1,200 civilians had died in the nine-day Russian siege of the southern port, with people left cowering without power or water under a barrage of shelling.
Condemning the hospital attack as an “war crime,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shared video footage showing massive destruction at the complex, saying a “direct strike by Russian troops” had left children under the wreckage.
A local official said the strike on the recently refurbished maternity hospital, which included a paediatric unit, wounded at least 17 staff, though no deaths were reported.
On the Russian side, the foreign ministry — while it did not deny the attack — accused Ukrainian “nationalist battalions” of using the hospital to set up firing positions after moving out staff and patients.
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