Boris Johnson has pledged to tighten sanctions against Russia after a 'horrifying' attack on a maternity hospital in Mariupol.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy earlier on Wednesday accused Russia of an "atrocity" after the hospital in Mariupol was targeted by Russian forces.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson condemned the attack saying: "There are few things more depraved than targeting the vulnerable and defenceless. "As someone who's spent a lot of time in children's hospitals, imagine you've got a desperately ill child, you're getting treatment and suddenly you're under the rubble, dead, dying or wounded as part of this vicious, pre-meditated, illegal war launched by Putin."
Whilst the city council said on Wednesday that Russian troops had dropped "several bombs" on the hospital causing "colossal destruction", adding that it did not yet know any casualty figures.
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