Ukrainian authorities said that the Wednesday strike killed three people, including a child, and wounded 17.
The attacks on Mariupol, a port city on the Sea of Azov, have been ongoing for several days. In addition to having a port, controllingwould be useful to Russia because it would create a land passage from Crimea, a Ukrainian region that Russia annexed in 2014.
Russian forces claimed radical fighters were at a maternity hospital they struck in Ukraine. Above, a woman walks outside the hospital that was damaged by shelling in Mariupol on March 9, 2022."Petrifying war crime in Mariupol," Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine's minister for foreign affairs, said in a tweet."We could stop this barbarism by protecting our skies.
Though some attempts have been made to establish humanitarian corridors out of Mariupol, Russian fire has blocked them. Russian-made corridors out of other cities like Kyiv and KharkivPetro Andrushenko, an adviser to Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boichenko, told Reuters that Russian aircraft were targeting routes humanitarian workers and evacuation buses were trying to use to come into the city.
"They want to absolutely delete our city, delete our people," Andrushenko said."They want to stop any evacuation."
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