Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned Russia’s Wednesday attack on a maternity hospital in southern Ukraine that killed a newborn baby.
The child’s mother and a doctor were rescued from the rubble of the destroyed hospital in Vilnyansk, in the Zaporizhzhia region, after the rocket attack, according to Ukrainian officials.
“The terrorist state continues to fight civilians and civilian objects,” Zelensky said, referring to Russia.
“The enemy has decided once more to try to achieve with terror and murder what it has not achieved for nine months and will not be able to achieve. Instead, he will only be held accountable for all the harm he has brought to our country.”
Vilnyansk is a city controlled by Ukraine. Parts of the wider Zaporizhzhia region are occupied by Russia, which claims it as Russian territory in violation of international law.
Rescue
A woman was rescued on Wednesday from the rubble of a hospital in southern Ukraine after a Russian strike destroyed the facility, killing her newborn baby, Ukrainian officials said.
Ukraine’s State Emergency Services said the woman had just given birth to the child at the maternity hospital in the city of Vilnyansk, in the Zaporizhzhia region. A doctor was also rescued, they said.
According to preliminary information, no one else is under the rubble, they added.
Earlier, the head of the Zaporizhzhia regional military administration said in Telegram that Russian forces “launched huge rockets at a small maternity hospital in Vilnyansk hospital”.
civilian deaths
At least 6,595 Ukrainian civilians have died and 10,189 have been injured since Russia invaded the country in February, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Among the dead were at least 415 children, 2,575 men, 1,767 women and 1,838 other adults whose gender has yet to be identified, according to data released on Monday (21).
Many of the civilian deaths occurred in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Donbass – an eastern region at the heart of the war that has seen the heaviest fighting in recent months.
Source: CNN Brasil
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