Children under rubble after Russian airstrike on maternity hospital, says Zelenskiy
by Luke Harding in Lviv, Julian Borger in Washington, from World news | The Guardian on (#5WXHM)
Authorities say at least 17 wounded including women in labour as shelling again halts evacuations
Russian bombs have completely destroyed" a children's and maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukrainian authorities have said, as shelling again halted mass evacuations from several cities, including the devastated southern port where conditions are described as apocalyptic".
As Ukraine's foreign minister, Dmitryo Kuleba, accused Russia of holding 400,000 people hostage" in Mariupol, much of whose population has been without power, heat, water or phone signal for over a week, the president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, denounced an atrocity.
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