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Ukraine today accused Russian forces of hitting a psychiatric hospital near the eastern Ukrainian city of Izium in a “brutal attack on civilians” as described by a regional governor.
Olek Shinehubov, governor of the Kharkiv region, said 330 people were in hospital at the time, some of them in wheelchairs or unable to move, and that 73 had been evacuated. The number of victims is being determined, he said.
“It is a crime against civilians, a genocide against the Ukrainian nation,” Shinehubov told the Telegram.
The Russian airstrikes on a psychiatric hospital in the Kharkiv region of eastern Ukraine today left no casualties, Ukrainian emergency services later said in a statement.
“All 30 workers and 330 patients were in shelter at the time of the attack,” the statement said.
Reuters has not been able to confirm the report directly from an independent source, in an area where heavy fighting has been reported since Russian forces invaded Ukraine on February 24. Russia denies targeting civilians in what it calls a “special operation” to disarm and “de-Nazify” Ukraine.
The bomber struck shortly after noon in front of a hospital in Mariupol, southern Ukraine, killing at least three people and wounding four others, including a child, according to Ukrainian officials. Russia has said it will investigate the incident but some officials have dismissed reports of the attack as “false news”.
Shinehubov also said that Russian forces had bombed residential areas in Kharkiv, the region’s main city, 89 times in one day, but that there was no danger to civilians after being hit by a nuclear laboratory.
All Ukrainian nuclear power plants are operating steadily but workers at the Zaporizhia plant are facing “psychological pressure” at work following its occupation by Russian forces, according to the Ukrainian state-owned nuclear power company Energoatom. According to her, the levels of radioactivity in all factories were unchanged.
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