Child among dead in Russian airstrike on hospital, say officials as Moscow warns West against supplying weapons to Ukraine
KUMASI, 10th March, (Futball Surgery)– Three people are dead, including a child, after Russia’s attack on a maternity hospital in Mariupol, the city council says – as the latest round of peace talks to find a diplomatic solution to the war in Ukraine failed to produce a deal.
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News of the casualties comes after two more hospitals were bombed in Russian airstrikes on the Ukrainian city of Zhytomyr, its mayor Serhii Sukhomlyn said – one of them was a children’s hospital and no one was wounded.
Three people are dead, including a child, after Russia’s attack on a maternity hospital in Mariupol, the city council says – as the latest round of peace talks to find a diplomatic solution to the war in Ukraine failed to produce a deal.
The attack in the southern port city wounded women waiting to give birth and doctors, and buried children in the rubble.
News of the casualties came after two more hospitals were bombed in Russian airstrikes on the Ukrainian city of Zhytomyr, its mayor Serhii Sukhomlyn said – one of them was a children’s hospital and no one was wounded.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) confirmed there have been 18 attacks on medical facilities since the Russian invasion began.
Russia’s war in Ukraine enters its third week today – and shows no sign of abating, with the first high-level talks between the foreign ministers of both sides since the war began on 24 February ending without success in Antalya, Turkey.
No deal on 24-hour ceasefire
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said no progress was made on establishing a 24-hour ceasefire, adding the impression he was given by his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov was that Russia will continue its offensive – seeking a “surrender” from Kyiv which will never happen.
He said he did his best to find a “diplomatic solution” to the “tragedy” unfolding on the battleground in besieged cities like Mariupol, and to negotiate a humanitarian corridor from the city for civilians who want to flee the “terror” – but no deal was reached.
Mr Kuleba suggested Mr Lavrov did not have the mandate to call the shots – which the Russian foreign minister responded to, saying such decisions need to be taken by the commander-in-chief Vladimir Putin and his military chiefs.
Mr Lavrov said Russia’s military operation was going to plan – and condemned the West’s supply of weapons to Ukraine as a “dangerous” move, adding they were creating a “colossal threat for themselves”.
Asked about the bombing of the maternity hospital, Mr Lavrov alleged the building was under the control of Ukrainian “radicals” and no patients were inside, and he deflected any criticism that Moscow was responsible for civilian deaths, reiterating the unfounded claim Ukrainian forces are using civilians as human shields.
US fears Russia could unleash chemical weapons
The White House has warned Russia could be planning a chemical or biological weapon attack in Ukraine.
Press secretary Jen Psaki suggested “Russia’s false claims about alleged US biological weapons labs and chemical weapons development in Ukraine” were an “obvious ploy” to justify “further premeditated, unprovoked, and unjustified” attacks.
“Now that Russia has made these false claims, and China has seemingly endorsed this propaganda, we should all be on the lookout for Russia to possibly use chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine, or to create a false flag operation using them,” she tweeted.
It comes after Western officials shared similar concerns about fresh attacks.
More than 10,000 people evacuated around Kyiv in a day
Ukrainian forces including citizen-soldiers are holding out in Kyiv and other frontlines, while Russian troops, tanks and artillery make slow progress from the north, south and east.
Russian advances in the south – the captured city of Kherson to the besieged city of Mariupol – have been more successful in contrast with the difficulties forces have experienced in the north and north-east, in particular its efforts to encircle the capital.
More than 10,000 people were evacuated from villages and cities around Kyiv on Wednesday, the city’s regional governor Oleksiy Kuleba said on local television on Thursday.
Putin accused of deploying conscript troops ‘to replace his losses’
Russia says it has destroyed more than 2,900 Ukrainian military infrastructure facilities in Ukraine, Russian news agencies reported.
In its latest update, the Ministry of Defence said Russian forces northwest of the capital have made “little progress” and are “suffering continued losses” at the hands of the Ukrainian military.
There has been a “notable decrease in overall Russian air activity” over Ukraine in recent days, “likely due to the unexpected effectiveness and endurance” of Kyiv’s air defences, it added.
The MoD also accused Russia of deploying conscript troops to Ukraine and said Vladimir Putin will have to draw from across his forces “and other sources to replace his losses”.
Children buried under rubble, says Zelenskyy
The strikes on Zhytomyr follow the Mariupol maternity hospital attack on Wednesday, in which at least 17 people were wounded, according to Ukrainian officials.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called it a war crime and said children were among people “under the wreckage”.
“An aerial bomb on a maternity hospital is the conclusive evidence that what is happening is a genocide of Ukrainians,” he said.
The complex was hit by a series of blasts – and the victims evacuated included a heavily pregnant, bleeding woman on a stretcher.
Zelenskyy urges tougher sanctions
Mariupol is surrounded by Russian troops and has been subject to heavy shelling for days, leaving thousands of people without food, water and electricity.
“Europeans,” said Mr Zelenskyy. “You won’t be able to say that you didn’t see what happened to Ukrainians in Mariuopol. You saw. You know.
“Consequently, you must strengthen sanctions against Russia so that it never has the chance to continue this genocide.”
Prime Minister Boris Johnson condemned the “horrifying hospital strike” and pledged the “maximum economic cost” would be imposed on Russia.
Britain’s Armed Forces minister James Heappey told Sky News that whether hitting the hospital was “indiscriminate” fire into a built-up area or a deliberate targeting, “it is a war crime”.
Hundreds of people have been killed, more than two million made refugees, and thousands forced to hide in cities under relentless bombardment.
The United Nations says it has recorded 516 civilian deaths and 908 injuries as a result of the conflict, but the true toll is likely to be “considerably higher”.
