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Ukraine Foreign Ministry: Mosque sheltering 80+ children, adults shelled
Yet another Russian war crime.
3.12.22
Russian forces shelled a mosque sheltering more than 80 children and adults in the war-ravaged city of Mariupol, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said Saturday. Both the ministry and Ukraine’s first deputy minister of foreign affairs shared images of the mosque to Twitter. “At this very moment, the (Russian) army is bombing the Magnificent Mosque, which was built in memory of Suleiman the Magnificent and Hürrem Sultan,” Emine Dzheppar, the deputy minister of foreign affairs, tweeted Friday. The ministry said that Turkish citizens were also hiding in the mosque when it was shelled, which the Ukrainian Embassy in Turkey confirmed. The embassy said a group of 86 Turkish nationals, including 34 children, were among the people who sought safety in the mosque.
Yet another Russian war crime.