Ukraine accused Russia on Wednesday of bombing a children’s hospital in the besieged port of Mariupol during a supposed ceasefire to enable some of the hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped in the city to escape.
Russia had said it would hold fire to let civilians flee Mariupol and other besieged cities on Wednesday. But the city council said the hospital had been hit several times.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a tweet that “children are under wreckage," claiming Russian forces dropped a bomb on a children’s hospital in Mariupol on Wednesday. He called for the sky to be closed to “stop the killings."https://t.co/n6ZDBcyqtG pic.twitter.com/FGnzCYOopW
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