Twitter Deletes Tweets From Russian Propaganda Channels About Shelling of Maternity Hospital
Russian state media and the Russian embassies around the world have spent the past day on Twitter and Instagram harassing a pregnant Ukrainian woman who appeared in photos published around the world after she was injured in an attack by the Russian military on Wednesday. The woman was in a maternity ward when it was shelled by Russian forces, something the Russian government denies.
At least 17 people were injured in the attack and three people were killed, including a child, according to the. But that didn’t stop anti-Ukraine Twitter accounts from casting doubt on the incident in the aftermath. “A children’s hospital, a maternity ward. How did they threaten the Russian Federation? What is this country, the Russian Federation, that is afraid of hospitals, maternity wards and is destroying them?” Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on Telegram according to the
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