International leaders and Ukraine accused Russia of a “barbarian” attack on a children’s hospital in the besieged city of Mariupol, as civilians continue to bear the brunt of the conflict two weeks after the start of Moscow invasion.
At least three people were killed, including one young girl, in a attack the day before on a children’s hospital in Mariupol in southern Ukraine, local officials said on Thusday.
“Three people were killed, including a girl, in yesterday attack on a children’s and motherhood in Mariupol, besieged by Ukraine, according to updated figures this morning”, the city the board said on his Telegram channel. Authorities had previously given a toll of 17 injured in the attack.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says 35,000 civilians managed to flee cities under Russian rule attack on Wednesday, but there was little relief in Mariupol where mayor said relentless shelling had killed over 1,200 civilians in the nine-day siege.
“A children’s hospital. A maternity hospital. How did they threaten the Russian Federation?” asked Zelensky. in son nightly video address, switching to Russian to express horror on strike. “What kind of country is it, the Russian Federation, who is afraid of hospitals, fear of maternities and destroys their?”
He urged the West to impose even tougher sanctions, so that Russia “no longer has any possibility of continuing this genocide”.
Zelenskyy shared video footage showing massive destruction at the newly renovated hospital in the south port city condemning the attack like a “war crime.” He said that the “direct strike by Russian troops” had left children under the wreckage.
The Russian Foreign Ministry has not denied attack but accused the Ukrainian “nationalist battalions” of using the hospital at set up firing posts after moving out personnel and patients. The Kremlin announced on Thursday that it would approach Russia military for details of Strike.
“We will certainly ask our military about this, since we don’t have clear information about what happened there. Without fail military will provide some kind of information”, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov dismissed concerns about military attacks on civilians, including on motherhood, like “pathetic cries” of son enemies. Lavrov met son Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba in Turkey on Thursday in the highest Russian-Ukrainian talks since the start of the war last month.
In the Russian government it is first public comment on Wednesday strike on a maternity in the besieged city of Mariupol, Lavrov neither denied nor hesitated to take responsibility for the attack. He claimed the site had previously been seized by Ukrainian far-right radical fighters who were using this as a basis. Even though there were a lot of pictures of injured civilians in the attack and the city the board said a child was among three people killed, Lavrov claimed that all patients and nurses had been moved of the hospital before the assault.
Lavrov said Russia is ready for more negotiations but showed no sign of soften Moscow’s stance in the dispute.
A video shared from the site by rescue workers showed a scene of complete devastation, with the wounded being evacuated, some on stretchers, past charred and burning carcasses of cars and a huge crater near the building.
Inside, debris, shards of glass and shards of wood litter the hallways, administrative offices and bedrooms, with mattress thrown of their executives.
The White House castigated the “barbarian” use of force against civilians, while British Prime Minister Boris Johnson called on the attack “depraved.”
A UN spokesperson said there was no health facility”should never be a target.”
american secretary of State Antony J. Blinken condemned Russia’s ‘unacceptable attacks’ in a call with son Ukrainian counterpart, Dmytro Kuleba, the State Department said.
the attack came like women were in indoor work, regional military administration in Donetsk told Agence France-Presse (AFP). Local authorities rushed to bury dead from past two weeks of combat in a mass grave in the city.
The workers dug a trench of about 25 meters (yards) long to one of the citythe old cemeteries and made the sign of the cross as they pushed in wrapped bodies in mats or bags.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday it had confirmed 18 attacks on medical facilities from Russia invasion started two weeks ago.
Despite often violent bombardments on populated areas, american military officials reported little change on ground in the last 24 hours other than Russian progress on towns of Kharkiv and Mykolaiv, in fierce fighting. Officials spoke on state of anonymity to assess military situation.
Zelenskyy said three humanitarian corridors are working on Wednesday, from Sumy in the northeast near the Russian border, from the suburbs of Kyiv and Enerhodar, the southern town where the Russian forces took over a large nuclear power plant. In all, he says, about 35,000 people obtained out. Further evacuations were planned for Thusday.
people streamed out of Kyiv’s suburbs, many have headed for the city center, as explosions were heard in the capital and air the raid sirens sounded repeatedly. From there, the evacuees planned to board bound trains for western regions of Ukraine, currently not under attack.
Civilians leaving the Kyiv suburb of Irpin were forced to do their way on the slippery wooden planks of a makeshift bridge because the Ukrainians blew up up the concrete span leading for Kyiv a few days ago to slow down the Russian advance.
With sporadic gunshots ringing out behind them firefighters dragged an old man safety in a wheelbarrow, a child grabbed the main of a soldier helping, and a woman pushed her way long, cradling a fluffy cat inside son winter coat. They dragged past a wrecked van with the words “Our Ukraine” written in dust covering son windows.
In Mariupol, a city of 430,000 people on the sea of Azov, the local authorities hastened to bury dead from past two weeks of combat in a common grave. City workers dug a trench about 25 meters (82 feet) long at one of the citythe old cemeteries and made the sign of the cross as they pushed wrapped bodies in mats or bags over the edge.
Previous attempts to allow civilians to leave Mariupol, in in particular, have collapsed, with help groups warning of a catastrophic situation in the city or basic services have stopped.
And forces from Moscow continued to advance rapidly towards the capital, approaching Brovary, a large eastern suburb, AFP journalists found.
The fighting escalated in the area, with Ukrainian forces are trying to repel Russian tanks, Ukrainian residents and volunteers told AFP. Overnight, the Ukrainian General Staff said Russian forces were continuing their “offensive operation” to circle Kyiv while pressing attacks on a string of other cities in the country.
The UK Ministry of Defense said fighting was continuing in the northwest of Kyiv. Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Sumy and Mariupol were heavily shelled and remained surrounded by Russian forces.
Russian forces place military equipment on farms and in the middle of residential buildings in The North city of Chernihiv, Ukraine military noted. To the south, the Russians in civilian clothes advance on the city of Mykolaiv, a shipbuilding center of the Black Sea of a half-million peopleIt said.
The Ukrainian military, meanwhile, is building up tusks in cities in the northto the south and east, and the forces around Kyiv “stay the course” against the Russian offensive, the authorities said.
US rejects fighter jet project
About 2.2 millions of refugees left Ukraine in what the UN has called the fastest growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II.
The conflict has sparked fears of a nuclear accident in a country with major nuclear power plants and the site of the Chernobyl disaster.
The UN’s atomic watchdog said on Wednesday it saw “no critical impact on safety“At Chernobyl, the location of the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 1986, despite a defeat of power the.
But he warned he was not getting updates from Chernobyl or Zaporizhzhia, Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant, which is also now under Russian control.
The United States meanwhile rejected Russian claims that it was involved. in biological weapons research in Ukraine and warned that Russia could be preparing to use chemical or biological weapons in the war.
Washington has strongly supported Ukraine, leading the thrust for difficult international sanctions and the sending of arms and other aid.
But he ruled out imposing a no-fly zone and rejecting a Polish plan to transfer fighter jets via an American air base for fear of to be drawn in the conflict directly.
Zelensky has repeatedly called on Western powers to find a way to provide it with The planes of combat Polish MiG-29 of the Soviet era, only Ukrainian pilots already know how steal.
Washington, however, reinforced-up tusks in Poland, where it announced on Wednesday that it would send two new surface-to-air missile batteries.
And Britain said it was preparing to send more portable missile systems for help Ukraine, in in addition to more more than 3,000 anti-tank weapons sent to date, while Canada has pledged 50 millions additional dollars worth of military equipment.
calls for oil ban
The Monetary Fund international (IMF) has also approved $1.4 billion emergency package for Kyiv to supply “critical financial support.”
Tandem with military aid to Kyivles Western allies sought to press Moscow with unprecedented sanctions – including a US ban announced Tuesday on oil imports that help fund the conflict.
On Wednesday, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss urged the entire G-7 to ban imports of Russian oil, saying the world’s major economies should “go further and faster” in punish Moscow for invade Ukraine.
But political leaders are wary of impact, with Bruno Le Maire, French Minister of Economy warning the current spike in energy prices could produce effects comparable to the oil shock of 1973.
The European Union accepted in waiting for add more Russian oligarchs to sanctions blacklist.
International leaders and Ukraine accused Russia of a “barbarian” attack on a children’s hospital in the besieged city of Mariupol, as civilians continue to bear the brunt of the conflict two weeks after the start of Moscow invasion.
At least three people were killed, including one young girl, in a attack the day before on a children’s hospital in Mariupol in southern Ukraine, local officials said on Thusday.
“Three people were killed, including a girl, in yesterday attack on a children’s and motherhood in Mariupol, besieged by Ukraine, according to updated figures this morning”, the city the board said on his Telegram channel. Authorities had previously given a toll of 17 injured in the attack.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says 35,000 civilians managed to flee cities under Russian rule attack on Wednesday, but there was little relief in Mariupol where mayor said relentless shelling had killed over 1,200 civilians in the nine-day siege.
“A children’s hospital. A maternity hospital. How did they threaten the Russian Federation?” asked Zelensky. in son nightly video address, switching to Russian to express horror on strike. “What kind of country is it, the Russian Federation, who is afraid of hospitals, fear of maternities and destroys their?”
He urged the West to impose even tougher sanctions, so that Russia “no longer has any possibility of continuing this genocide”.
Zelenskyy shared video footage showing massive destruction at the newly renovated hospital in the south port city condemning the attack like a “war crime.” He said that the “direct strike by Russian troops” had left children under the wreckage.
The Russian Foreign Ministry has not denied attack but accused the Ukrainian “nationalist battalions” of using the hospital at set up firing posts after moving out personnel and patients. The Kremlin announced on Thursday that it would approach Russia military for details of Strike.
“We will certainly ask our military about this, since we don’t have clear information about what happened there. Without fail military will provide some kind of information”, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov dismissed concerns about military attacks on civilians, including on motherhood, like “pathetic cries” of son enemies. Lavrov met son Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba in Turkey on Thursday in the highest Russian-Ukrainian talks since the start of the war last month.
In the Russian government it is first public comment on Wednesday strike on a maternity in the besieged city of Mariupol, Lavrov neither denied nor hesitated to take responsibility for the attack. He claimed the site had previously been seized by Ukrainian far-right radical fighters who were using this as a basis. Even though there were a lot of pictures of injured civilians in the attack and the city the board said a child was among three people killed, Lavrov claimed that all patients and nurses had been moved of the hospital before the assault.
Lavrov said Russia is ready for more negotiations but showed no sign of soften Moscow’s stance in the dispute.
A video shared from the site by rescue workers showed a scene of complete devastation, with the wounded being evacuated, some on stretchers, past charred and burning carcasses of cars and a huge crater near the building.
Inside, debris, shards of glass and shards of wood litter the hallways, administrative offices and bedrooms, with mattress thrown of their executives.
The White House castigated the “barbarian” use of force against civilians, while British Prime Minister Boris Johnson called on the attack “depraved.”
A UN spokesperson said there was no health facility”should never be a target.”
american secretary of State Antony J. Blinken condemned Russia’s ‘unacceptable attacks’ in a call with son Ukrainian counterpart, Dmytro Kuleba, the State Department said.
the attack came like women were in indoor work, regional military administration in Donetsk told Agence France-Presse (AFP). Local authorities rushed to bury dead from past two weeks of combat in a mass grave in the city.
The workers dug a trench of about 25 meters (yards) long to one of the citythe old cemeteries and made the sign of the cross as they pushed in wrapped bodies in mats or bags.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday it had confirmed 18 attacks on medical facilities from Russia invasion started two weeks ago.
Despite often violent bombardments on populated areas, american military officials reported little change on ground in the last 24 hours other than Russian progress on towns of Kharkiv and Mykolaiv, in fierce fighting. Officials spoke on state of anonymity to assess military situation.
Zelenskyy said three humanitarian corridors are working on Wednesday, from Sumy in the northeast near the Russian border, from the suburbs of Kyiv and Enerhodar, the southern town where the Russian forces took over a large nuclear power plant. In all, he says, about 35,000 people obtained out. Further evacuations were planned for Thusday.
people streamed out of Kyiv’s suburbs, many have headed for the city center, as explosions were heard in the capital and air the raid sirens sounded repeatedly. From there, the evacuees planned to board bound trains for western regions of Ukraine, currently not under attack.
Civilians leaving the Kyiv suburb of Irpin were forced to do their way on the slippery wooden planks of a makeshift bridge because the Ukrainians blew up up the concrete span leading for Kyiv a few days ago to slow down the Russian advance.
With sporadic gunshots ringing out behind them firefighters dragged an old man safety in a wheelbarrow, a child grabbed the main of a soldier helping, and a woman pushed her way long, cradling a fluffy cat inside son winter coat. They dragged past a wrecked van with the words “Our Ukraine” written in dust covering son windows.
In Mariupol, a city of 430,000 people on the sea of Azov, the local authorities hastened to bury dead from past two weeks of combat in a common grave. City workers dug a trench about 25 meters (82 feet) long at one of the citythe old cemeteries and made the sign of the cross as they pushed wrapped bodies in mats or bags over the edge.
Previous attempts to allow civilians to leave Mariupol, in in particular, have collapsed, with help groups warning of a catastrophic situation in the city or basic services have stopped.
And forces from Moscow continued to advance rapidly towards the capital, approaching Brovary, a large eastern suburb, AFP journalists found.
The fighting escalated in the area, with Ukrainian forces are trying to repel Russian tanks, Ukrainian residents and volunteers told AFP. Overnight, the Ukrainian General Staff said Russian forces were continuing their “offensive operation” to circle Kyiv while pressing attacks on a string of other cities in the country.
The UK Ministry of Defense said fighting was continuing in the northwest of Kyiv. Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Sumy and Mariupol were heavily shelled and remained surrounded by Russian forces.
Russian forces place military equipment on farms and in the middle of residential buildings in The North city of Chernihiv, Ukraine military noted. To the south, the Russians in civilian clothes advance on the city of Mykolaiv, a shipbuilding center of the Black Sea of a half-million peopleIt said.
The Ukrainian military, meanwhile, is building up tusks in cities in the northto the south and east, and the forces around Kyiv “stay the course” against the Russian offensive, the authorities said.
US rejects fighter jet project
About 2.2 millions of refugees left Ukraine in what the UN has called the fastest growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II.
The conflict has sparked fears of a nuclear accident in a country with major nuclear power plants and the site of the Chernobyl disaster.
The UN’s atomic watchdog said on Wednesday it saw “no critical impact on safety“At Chernobyl, the location of the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 1986, despite a defeat of power the.
But he warned he was not getting updates from Chernobyl or Zaporizhzhia, Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant, which is also now under Russian control.
The United States meanwhile rejected Russian claims that it was involved. in biological weapons research in Ukraine and warned that Russia could be preparing to use chemical or biological weapons in the war.
Washington has strongly supported Ukraine, leading the thrust for difficult international sanctions and the sending of arms and other aid.
But he ruled out imposing a no-fly zone and rejecting a Polish plan to transfer fighter jets via an American air base for fear of to be drawn in the conflict directly.
Zelensky has repeatedly called on Western powers to find a way to provide it with The planes of combat Polish MiG-29 of the Soviet era, only Ukrainian pilots already know how steal.
Washington, however, reinforced-up tusks in Poland, where it announced on Wednesday that it would send two new surface-to-air missile batteries.
And Britain said it was preparing to send more portable missile systems for help Ukraine, in in addition to more more than 3,000 anti-tank weapons sent to date, while Canada has pledged 50 millions additional dollars worth of military equipment.
calls for oil ban
The Monetary Fund international (IMF) has also approved $1.4 billion emergency package for Kyiv to supply “critical financial support.”
Tandem with military aid to Kyivles Western allies sought to press Moscow with unprecedented sanctions – including a US ban announced Tuesday on oil imports that help fund the conflict.
On Wednesday, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss urged the entire G-7 to ban imports of Russian oil, saying the world’s major economies should “go further and faster” in punish Moscow for invade Ukraine.
But political leaders are wary of impact, with Bruno Le Maire, French Minister of Economy warning the current spike in energy prices could produce effects comparable to the oil shock of 1973.
The European Union accepted in waiting for add more Russian oligarchs to sanctions blacklist.