China News Service, March 10. According to Reuters, on the 10th local time, Russia said that Ukraine's claim that Russia had bombed a children's hospital in Mariupol was "fake news".
According to reports, Ukrainian officials had previously said that Russian planes bombed a children's hospital in Mariupol on the 9th, and patients were buried in the rubble.
In this regard, Dmitry Polyansky, the first deputy permanent representative of Russia to the United Nations, said on social media that "fake news is born in this way". He said that the building used to be a maternity hospital and has long been used by The army takes over.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov previously stressed that Russian troops do not fire on civilian targets.
It is reported that this is not the first time Russia has refuted such "fake news".
On the 4th local time, the Russian State Duma passed amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, stipulating punishments for spreading false information about the behavior of Russian soldiers, slandering the Russian armed forces and calling for anti-Russian sanctions.