The war in Ukraine is taking another step up the scale of horror.

Three people, including a child, were killed in the Russian bombardment of a pediatric hospital in Mariupol (east) on Wednesday, the town hall of this port city announced on Thursday.

The previous report published the day before by the authorities counted a total of 17 people injured.

"Russian troops are deliberately and ruthlessly destroying the civilian population of Mariupol", accused the municipality which had reported the day before more than 1,200 local inhabitants killed in nine days of the Russian siege of this city.

The attack on the maternity ward caused outrage among Ukrainian and Western authorities.

Images of the massacre.


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  • Mariupol is a port city on the shores of the Sea of ​​Azov (southeast) caught between the Russian army and the pro-Russian separatist forces of the Ukrainian Donbass.

  • The nine-day siege of Mariupol has already claimed 1,207 lives, the town hall said on Wednesday evening.

  • A facility housing a pediatric hospital and a maternity ward was hit by Russian shelling on Wednesday.

  • “Three people died, including a little girl,” the municipality said on Telegram on Thursday.

    The previous report published the day before by the authorities reported 17 people injured.

  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who condemned a "war crime", shared videos showing the destruction - after an air raid - of the establishment.

  • Interiors of buildings can be seen blown away, debris, sheets of paper and shards of glass littering the ground.

  • At least 71 children have been killed in Ukraine since the start of the Russian offensive on February 24, announced Thursday Liudmyla Denisova, in charge of human rights at the Ukrainian Parliament.

  • The head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrell, described Thursday as a “heinous war crime” the Russian bombardment of a facility housing a maternity and pediatric hospital in Mariupol.

  • It is an “inhumane, cruel and tragic act.

    I am convinced that it may be a war crime: a thorough investigation must be carried out, ”said the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.

  • The head of Russian diplomacy Sergei Lavrov on Thursday justified the bombardment of this maternity hospital, the building of which he said served as a base for a nationalist battalion.

  • “This maternity ward has long since been taken over by the Azov battalion and other radicals, and all the women in childbirth, all the nurses and all the support staff have been fired,” Lavrov assured the from talks with his Ukrainian counterpart in Turkey.

  • French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday condemned "with the greatest firmness" the Russian bombardment of this establishment, which is "an unworthy and amoral act of war".

  • Before the start of an EU summit in Versailles, near Paris, Emmanuel Macron declared himself "worried" and "pessimistic" about the evolution of the conflict in Ukraine, not seeing diplomatic solutions "within hours and days to come.

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