Russia's war in Ukraine entered its third week Thursday with none of its key objectives reached despite thousands of people killed, more than two million made refugees, and thousands forced to cower.
The White House condemned the hospital bombing as a “barbaric use of military force to go after innocent civilians”.
“What kind of country is this, the Russian Federation, which is afraid of hospitals, is afraid of maternity hospitals, and destroys them?” Zelenskiy said in a televised address late on Wednesday. Ukraine's foreign ministry posted video footage of what it said was the hospital showing holes where windows should have been in a three-storey building. Huge piles of smouldering rubble littered the scene.
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