At least 17 people were injured, including health-care workers and patients. Authorities said some of those patients were women in labor
Photo: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP On Wednesday, Russian forces dropped multiple bombs on a maternity and children’s hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, violating a cease-fire meant to give civilians safe passage out of the city. Ukrainian media is reporting that at least 17 people were injured, including health-care workers and patients. Authorities said some of those patients were women in labor.
Mariupol, a port city on the southeast coast of the country, has been under siege for more than a week, and conditions are rapidly deteriorating. Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, wrote on Twitter that over 400,000 people — including 3,000 newborn babies — are currently being held hostage, with Russian forces blocking food, water, electricity, and medical care while shelling the city.
The attack on the hospital is a direct violation of a cease-fire announced earlier on Wednesday, when Ukraine’s deputy prime minister, Iryna Vereshchuk, said both countries had agreed to halt their attacks between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. to give civilians in Mariupol and other cities in Ukraine time to evacuate.
Ukraine President Volodymy Zelenskyy posted a video taken inside the hospital’s wreckage, stating that children were trapped under the rubble and calling the bombings an “atrocity.” He also begged NATO’s military alliance once again to declare a no-fly zone over Ukraine. The organization has repeatedly refused to impose a no-fly zone, warning that it would put the 30 countries in NATO in direct conflict with Russia and require them to send in their own planes to fight Russian aircrafts.
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