Carcass of cars in the courtyard of thepediatric hospital and maternity of Mariupol, completely gutted. A crater several meters deep to testify the point of impact of thebomb unhooked from jets. Women wounded on stretchersi departments reduced to a pile of debris and the bloody beds documented by the photographer’s shots Evgeniy Maloletka. Innocent victims, women e children hit by a “terrible attack by Russian troops”, the Ukrainian president denounced Volodymyr Zelensky. A raid that resulted in him indignation and the condemnation of the world, from the Vatican to the USA. “A maternity hospital in the city center, a pediatric ward and an internal medicine department have been destroyed during the’Russian air attack on Mariupol “, announced the head of the Donetsk regional military administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko.
“The maternity ward no longer exists,” added the number two of the national police Vyacheslav Abroskin. Several have been ascertained woundedat least 17, including women in childbirth, but the toll is likely to increase. “An atrocity”, thundered the Ukrainian leader, who renewed the appeal to Westerners to “close the skies” so as not to become “accomplices”. “You have the power to do it, but it seems you are losing humanity,” he commented disconsolately. The attack on the hospital is another major blow to a city in condition “Apocalyptic” due to the Russian siege, as the Red Cross.
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Russian-Ukrainian war, pediatric hospital attacked in Mariupol
AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka
For the fifth consecutive day, the attempt of a ‘mass evacuationbecause “we are under constant attack”, said the deputy mayor of Sergiy Orlovwhich he spoke of 1,300 dead since the beginning of the conflict. Dozens buried in mass graves because the morgues are “full”. With residents without water, heating and electricity. “Over 400,000 people are held hostage,” denounced Kiev. For the Russians, however, the narrative on the humanitarian disaster continues to be the opposite: it is all the fault of the “horrible actions of the Ukrainian nationalists”, who force civilians to stay to build barricadesargued the Ministry of Defence of Moscow.
For the secretary of state Vatican, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, it was an “unacceptable” attack. There are “few things more ignoble than targeting the vulnerable and defenseless”, thundered the British Prime Minister. Boris Johnson pointing out that Vladimir Putin “He will have to account for his terrible crimes” and announcing that the United Kingdom “is considering greater support for Ukraine to defend itself from air attacks”. The sentence also lasts White House“Horrifying to see the barbaric use of force against innocent civilians,” spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.