Three Killed In Attack On Ukraine’s Children Hospital

At least three people have been killed, including a young girl, in an attack on a children’s hospital in Mariupol in southern Ukraine, local officials reported on Thursday.

“Three people were killed, including a female child, in yesterday’s attack on a children’s and maternity hospital in Ukraine’s besieged Mariupol, according to updated figures this morning,” the city council stated on its Telegram channel.

Officials had initially given a toll of 17 injured in the attack.

“The Russian forces are destroying Mariupol’s civilian population deliberately and without mercy,” the city council disclosed.

It says 1,200 inhabitants have been killed in nine days of the Russian siege.

The attack on the children’s hospital, described by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a “war crime”, has triggered international indignation.