CHILD INCLUDED AMONGST THREE REPORTED DEAD IN RUSSIAN ATTACK ON A CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL

A Russian attack on a Ukrainian children hospital in Mariupol on Wednesday resulted in the death of three people including one child as reported by local officials.

“Three people were killed, including a female child, in yesterday’s attack on a children’s and maternity hospital in Ukraine’s besieged Mariupol, according to updated figures this morning,” the city council said on its Telegram channel.

The toll of those injured in the attack, according to the officials, was seventeen people including doctors.

Furthermore, the council declared that 1,200 inhabitants have been killed in nine days of the Russian siege.

“The Russian forces are destroying Mariupol’s civilian population deliberately and without mercy,” the city council said.

Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, regarded the attack on the children’s as a war crime and this has triggered international displeasure.

Save the Children’s Eastern Europe Director, Irina Saghoyan, said in a statement on Thursday: “It’s horrifying that a place people seek for help has become one of absolute and utter destruction.

“Where can families and children turn to if even hospitals are not safe? They must not become the battlefields where conflicts rage and innocent children are the casualties.”