A children’s hospital was destroyed in Mariupol, according to the Ukrainian president

A pediatric hospital in Mariupol, a besieged port in southeastern Ukraine, was destroyed by Russian shelling on Wednesday, regional official Pavlo Kirilenko said. Seventeen adults were reportedly injured, according to local authorities.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reacted quickly on Twitter, indicating that “people, children are under the rubble”.

“It is an atrocity! How much longer will the world be complicit in ignoring terror? Close the sky immediately! Stop the killings immediately! You have the power. But you seem to be losing your humanity,” he wrote.

A few minutes earlier, the mayor of Mariupol had written on his Facebook page: “Everything was destroyed during an airstrike by Russian aircraft over Mariupol. Just now “.

On a video released by the Ukrainian presidency, we can see from inside buildings blown up, debris, sheets of paper and shards of glass strewn on the ground.

Pavlo Kirilenko, the governor of the Donetsk region, has released disturbing images of the impacts of the war on the city, which has been the target of numerous bombardments and attacks by the Russian army in the past few days. According to the representative of the Ukrainian government, a children’s hospital and several other public services were “destroyed” in Russian air raids.

In the images shared by the governor, we can see charred trees and cars, as well as heavily damaged buildings, among other things. There is also a crater caused by aerial fire.

In another video posted by the national police Facebook page and shot outside the hospital, several cars are charred and a large crater has been dug following this air raid.

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