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Pro Putin republicans may now hold their heads in shame.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60675599
Ukraine maternity hospital 'destroyed' by Russian shelling
President Volodymyr Zelensky said children were under the wreckage, and called on Western leaders to impose a no-fly zone.
He also posted footage apparently from inside the hospital, which appears badly damaged.
There is no information yet on casualties, or on who was inside the hospital at the time.
The Mariupol city council said the strike had caused "colossal damage", and published footage showing burned out buildings, destroyed cars and a huge crater outside the hospital. The BBC has verified the location of the videos.
Mariupol has been surrounded by Russian forces for several days, and repeated attempts at a ceasefire to allow civilians to leave have broken down.
"The whole city remains without electricity, water, food, whatever and people are dying because of dehydration," Olena Stokoz of Ukraine's Red Cross told the BBC, adding that her organisation would continue trying to organise an evacuation corridor.
Earlier Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said "almost 3,000 newborn babies lack medicine and food" in Mariupol, and that Russia continued to hold more than 400,000 people "hostage".
Russia insists that it does not target civilian infrastructure in Ukraine.
But people and children are dying because of lack of water.
Putin has achieved pariah status, and is the enemy of freedom and democracy, and human decency.
Anyone who supports Putin, therefore, is also an enemy of freedom, democracy and human decency.
Those who bellyached that mask mandates were an 'attack on freedom', how do those cries sound, now, against the backdrop of Russian state sponsored terrorism, starving, bombing, children, where real freedoms are being attacked?
They ring hollow.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60675599
Ukraine maternity hospital 'destroyed' by Russian shelling
President Volodymyr Zelensky said children were under the wreckage, and called on Western leaders to impose a no-fly zone.
He also posted footage apparently from inside the hospital, which appears badly damaged.
There is no information yet on casualties, or on who was inside the hospital at the time.
The Mariupol city council said the strike had caused "colossal damage", and published footage showing burned out buildings, destroyed cars and a huge crater outside the hospital. The BBC has verified the location of the videos.
Mariupol has been surrounded by Russian forces for several days, and repeated attempts at a ceasefire to allow civilians to leave have broken down.
"The whole city remains without electricity, water, food, whatever and people are dying because of dehydration," Olena Stokoz of Ukraine's Red Cross told the BBC, adding that her organisation would continue trying to organise an evacuation corridor.
Earlier Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said "almost 3,000 newborn babies lack medicine and food" in Mariupol, and that Russia continued to hold more than 400,000 people "hostage".
Russia insists that it does not target civilian infrastructure in Ukraine.
But people and children are dying because of lack of water.
Putin has achieved pariah status, and is the enemy of freedom and democracy, and human decency.
Anyone who supports Putin, therefore, is also an enemy of freedom, democracy and human decency.
Those who bellyached that mask mandates were an 'attack on freedom', how do those cries sound, now, against the backdrop of Russian state sponsored terrorism, starving, bombing, children, where real freedoms are being attacked?
They ring hollow.