Mariupol: air raid on Russia Mariupol The maternity hospital that killed three people was condemned in Moscow on Thursday, with Ukrainian and Western officials calling it a war crime, while highest-level talks have so far made no progress on stopping the fighting.
Emergency personnel resumed efforts to bring food and medical supplies to besieged cities and to evacuate wounded civilians.
Ukrainian officials said a child was among those killed in Wednesday’s airstrike on the crucial southern port of Mariupol. Seventeen people were also injured, including women waiting to give birth, doctors and children buried under the rubble.
Images of pregnant women covered in dust and blood in several countries and a two-week-old war sparked by Russia’s invasion brought a new wave of terror, which killed thousands of soldiers and civilians, shook the foundation of European security, and killed 2.3 million people from Ukraine. More people were driven out.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky Told Russian leaders that the attack would backfire on them because their economy had been strangled. Western sanctions have already dealt a severe blow to the economy, causing the ruble to fall, foreign businesses fleeing – including investment bank Goldman Sachs on Thursday – and prices rising sharply.
“You will certainly be prosecuted for your involvement in war crimes,” Zelensky said in a video address. “And then, it will certainly happen, you will be hated by Russian citizens – everyone whom you have been deceiving continuously, daily, continuously for many years, when they feel the consequences of your lies in their purses in their shrinking possibilities. , in the stolen future of Russian children.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin Rejecting such talk, he said that the country has tolerated sanctions in the past as well.
“Just as we overcame these difficulties in previous years, we will overcome them now,” he told a televised meeting of government officials. However, he acknowledged that the restrictions pose “some challenges”.
Millions more have been displaced inside Ukraine. Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klitschko said about 2 million people – half the metropolitan area’s population – have left the capital, which has practically become a fortress.
“Har street, har ghar… are being strengthened,” he said. “Even those who never in their lives intended to change their clothes are now in uniform, with machine guns in their hands.”
Bombs fell on two hospitals in a city west of Kyiv on Wednesday, its mayor said. The World Health Organization said it had confirmed 18 attacks on medical facilities since the attack began.
Western officials said Russian forces had made little progress on the ground in recent days. But they have intensified the bombing of Mariupol and other cities, leaving hundreds of thousands trapped, lacking food and water.
Staff at a hospital on the outskirts of Kyiv say they have never seen a flood like the influx of often badly injured patients pouring out of its door. There are many citizens.
At a hospital on the outskirts of Kyiv, a 14-year-old girl named Katya was recovering after her family was ambushed on Thursday as they tried to flee the area. She was shot in the arm when her car was gunned down by a roadside forest, said her mother, who identified herself only as Nina.
The girl’s father, who escaped from an ambush on torn tyres, was being operated upon at the Brovery Central District Hospital. His wife said that he was shot in the head and two of his fingers were lost.
The temporary ceasefire to allow evacuation and humanitarian aid has repeatedly faltered, with Ukraine accusing Russia of continuing its bombing. But Zelensky said 35,000 people managed to get out of several besieged cities on Wednesday, and on Thursday more efforts were underway in eastern and southern Ukraine – including Mariupol – as well as in the Kyiv suburbs.
Mariupol city council posted a video showing buses going down a highway. It said a convoy carrying food and medicine was on its way despite several days of unsuccessful attempts to reach the city.
“Everyone is working to help the people of Mariupol. And it will come,” said Mayor Vadim Boychenko.
Images of the city, where hundreds of people have died and workers hurried to bury bodies in mass graves, have drawn condemnation from around the world. Residents have resorted to vandalizing shops for food and melting snow for water. There is no heat in the city for many days as the night temperature drops below freezing and during the day the temperature remains just above it.
“The only thing (I want) is to put an end to it,” said Volodymyr Bykovsky as he stood near a freshly dug ditch where the bodies were being buried. “I don’t know who’s to blame, who’s right, who started it. Damn all those people who started it!”
When a series of explosions struck the children’s and maternity hospital in Mariupol, the ground shook for more than a mile. The blasts blew out windows and blew up the front of a building. Police and soldiers arrived at the scene to rescue the victims, a bloodied woman carried on a stretcher with burnt and damaged cars. Another woman held her child and started crying.
Britain’s Armed Forces Minister James Happy said the hospital was shot down by indiscriminate fire or deliberately targeted “a war crime”. French President Emmanuel Macron called it “a shameful and immoral act of war”.
Kamala Harris, Vice President of the United States, on a visit to Ukraine’s neighboring Poland, supported the call for an international war-crime investigation into the invasion, saying, “The world’s eyes are on this war and what Russia has done in the context of this invasion.” And this atrocity.”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov dismissed concerns about civilian casualties as a “pathetic scream” from Russia’s enemies, and denied that Moscow had invaded as well.
He also claimed, without providing evidence, that Mariupol Hospital was confiscated by far-right radical fighters who were using it as a base – despite the fact that subsequent photographs showed pregnant women and children at the site. was shown on
“We have not invaded Ukraine,” he insisted.
Several rounds of talks have not stopped fighting, and a meeting at a Turkish Mediterranean resort between Lavrov and his Ukrainian counterpart, Dmitro Kuleba, failed to find much common ground.
Kuleba said the two sides discussed a 24-hour ceasefire in their highest-level talks since the start of the war, but progress had not been made. He added that Russia is still seeking “surrender from Ukraine”.
“It’s not what they’re going to get,” he said, adding that he was ready to continue talks.
Lavrov said Russia was open to more talks but showed no signs of easing Moscow’s demands.
Russia has accused Western-looking, US-backed Ukraine a threat to its security. Western officials suspect Putin The former Soviet seeks to establish a government friendly to Moscow in Kyiv as part of an effort to return the state to its orbit.
Russia’s military is struggling, suffering heavy losses and apparently facing stronger Ukrainian resistance than anticipated. But Putin’s military has used air power to attack major cities, often shelling populated areas.
In Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, 91-year-old Alevina Shernina sat at her feet with an electric heater, draped in blankets, as cold air blew in through a damaged window. She survived the brutal World War II siege of Leningrad, now St Petersburg, and is now under siege again, her health so fragile that she cannot be moved.
Her daughter-in-law Natalia said that she was indignant that Shernina “began her life in Leningrad under siege as a girl who was starving, who lived in cold and hunger, and that she Ending her life under such circumstances”.
“There were fascists and here are fascists who came and bombed our buildings and windows,” she said.
Emergency personnel resumed efforts to bring food and medical supplies to besieged cities and to evacuate wounded civilians.
Ukrainian officials said a child was among those killed in Wednesday’s airstrike on the crucial southern port of Mariupol. Seventeen people were also injured, including women waiting to give birth, doctors and children buried under the rubble.
Images of pregnant women covered in dust and blood in several countries and a two-week-old war sparked by Russia’s invasion brought a new wave of terror, which killed thousands of soldiers and civilians, shook the foundation of European security, and killed 2.3 million people from Ukraine. More people were driven out.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky Told Russian leaders that the attack would backfire on them because their economy had been strangled. Western sanctions have already dealt a severe blow to the economy, causing the ruble to fall, foreign businesses fleeing – including investment bank Goldman Sachs on Thursday – and prices rising sharply.
“You will certainly be prosecuted for your involvement in war crimes,” Zelensky said in a video address. “And then, it will certainly happen, you will be hated by Russian citizens – everyone whom you have been deceiving continuously, daily, continuously for many years, when they feel the consequences of your lies in their purses in their shrinking possibilities. , in the stolen future of Russian children.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin Rejecting such talk, he said that the country has tolerated sanctions in the past as well.
“Just as we overcame these difficulties in previous years, we will overcome them now,” he told a televised meeting of government officials. However, he acknowledged that the restrictions pose “some challenges”.
Millions more have been displaced inside Ukraine. Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klitschko said about 2 million people – half the metropolitan area’s population – have left the capital, which has practically become a fortress.
“Har street, har ghar… are being strengthened,” he said. “Even those who never in their lives intended to change their clothes are now in uniform, with machine guns in their hands.”
Bombs fell on two hospitals in a city west of Kyiv on Wednesday, its mayor said. The World Health Organization said it had confirmed 18 attacks on medical facilities since the attack began.
Western officials said Russian forces had made little progress on the ground in recent days. But they have intensified the bombing of Mariupol and other cities, leaving hundreds of thousands trapped, lacking food and water.
Staff at a hospital on the outskirts of Kyiv say they have never seen a flood like the influx of often badly injured patients pouring out of its door. There are many citizens.
At a hospital on the outskirts of Kyiv, a 14-year-old girl named Katya was recovering after her family was ambushed on Thursday as they tried to flee the area. She was shot in the arm when her car was gunned down by a roadside forest, said her mother, who identified herself only as Nina.
The girl’s father, who escaped from an ambush on torn tyres, was being operated upon at the Brovery Central District Hospital. His wife said that he was shot in the head and two of his fingers were lost.
The temporary ceasefire to allow evacuation and humanitarian aid has repeatedly faltered, with Ukraine accusing Russia of continuing its bombing. But Zelensky said 35,000 people managed to get out of several besieged cities on Wednesday, and on Thursday more efforts were underway in eastern and southern Ukraine – including Mariupol – as well as in the Kyiv suburbs.
Mariupol city council posted a video showing buses going down a highway. It said a convoy carrying food and medicine was on its way despite several days of unsuccessful attempts to reach the city.
“Everyone is working to help the people of Mariupol. And it will come,” said Mayor Vadim Boychenko.
Images of the city, where hundreds of people have died and workers hurried to bury bodies in mass graves, have drawn condemnation from around the world. Residents have resorted to vandalizing shops for food and melting snow for water. There is no heat in the city for many days as the night temperature drops below freezing and during the day the temperature remains just above it.
“The only thing (I want) is to put an end to it,” said Volodymyr Bykovsky as he stood near a freshly dug ditch where the bodies were being buried. “I don’t know who’s to blame, who’s right, who started it. Damn all those people who started it!”
When a series of explosions struck the children’s and maternity hospital in Mariupol, the ground shook for more than a mile. The blasts blew out windows and blew up the front of a building. Police and soldiers arrived at the scene to rescue the victims, a bloodied woman carried on a stretcher with burnt and damaged cars. Another woman held her child and started crying.
Britain’s Armed Forces Minister James Happy said the hospital was shot down by indiscriminate fire or deliberately targeted “a war crime”. French President Emmanuel Macron called it “a shameful and immoral act of war”.
Kamala Harris, Vice President of the United States, on a visit to Ukraine’s neighboring Poland, supported the call for an international war-crime investigation into the invasion, saying, “The world’s eyes are on this war and what Russia has done in the context of this invasion.” And this atrocity.”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov dismissed concerns about civilian casualties as a “pathetic scream” from Russia’s enemies, and denied that Moscow had invaded as well.
He also claimed, without providing evidence, that Mariupol Hospital was confiscated by far-right radical fighters who were using it as a base – despite the fact that subsequent photographs showed pregnant women and children at the site. was shown on
“We have not invaded Ukraine,” he insisted.
Several rounds of talks have not stopped fighting, and a meeting at a Turkish Mediterranean resort between Lavrov and his Ukrainian counterpart, Dmitro Kuleba, failed to find much common ground.
Kuleba said the two sides discussed a 24-hour ceasefire in their highest-level talks since the start of the war, but progress had not been made. He added that Russia is still seeking “surrender from Ukraine”.
“It’s not what they’re going to get,” he said, adding that he was ready to continue talks.
Lavrov said Russia was open to more talks but showed no signs of easing Moscow’s demands.
Russia has accused Western-looking, US-backed Ukraine a threat to its security. Western officials suspect Putin The former Soviet seeks to establish a government friendly to Moscow in Kyiv as part of an effort to return the state to its orbit.
Russia’s military is struggling, suffering heavy losses and apparently facing stronger Ukrainian resistance than anticipated. But Putin’s military has used air power to attack major cities, often shelling populated areas.
In Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, 91-year-old Alevina Shernina sat at her feet with an electric heater, draped in blankets, as cold air blew in through a damaged window. She survived the brutal World War II siege of Leningrad, now St Petersburg, and is now under siege again, her health so fragile that she cannot be moved.
Her daughter-in-law Natalia said that she was indignant that Shernina “began her life in Leningrad under siege as a girl who was starving, who lived in cold and hunger, and that she Ending her life under such circumstances”.
“There were fascists and here are fascists who came and bombed our buildings and windows,” she said.