Russia accuses Russia of bombing a school housing hundreds in Ukraine
A destroyed apartment building in Mariupol.
(Reuters)
The Ukrainian authorities announced on Sunday that Russia bombed a school housing 400 people in the besieged city of Mariupol, while Moscow announced that it had used a hypersonic missile for the second time in Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a speech on Sunday that the blockade of Mariupol, a strategic port in the southeast of the country that has been cut off communications for days, is a "war crime".
He also referred to the deaths of thousands of Russian soldiers in the war.
"Yesterday, the Russian occupiers threw bombs at Art School No. 12," the Mariupol city council said on the messaging app Telegram Sunday, adding that about 400 women, children and the elderly were sheltering there from the bombing.
He added that "peaceful civilians are still under the rubble," noting that the building was destroyed.
The city authorities also said that some residents of Mariupol had been forced to move to Russia and had their Ukrainian passports stripped.
In addition, the Russian Defense Ministry announced Sunday that it used modern hypersonic "Kinzhal" missiles, praised by Vladimir Putin, to destroy a fuel storage site in the southern Mykolaiv region.
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