videoInternational newspapers have reacted with bewilderment to the ‘hospital attacks’ by the Russian armed forces. According to the World Health Organizations (WHO), there have been 18 attacks on hospitals since war started in Ukraine.
Bob van Huet
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Russia strongly denies targeting hospitals, saying the abandoned complexes are now used by “nationalist battalions” as the Kremlin calls the Ukrainian army. ‘An atrocity. Due to the air strike on a children’s hospital in Mariupol, the talks between the Ukrainian and Russian foreign ministers in Antalya are starting under the worst possible circumstances,” writes the Flemish newspaper. The standard†
The Flemish newspaper The morning headline: ‘Russia commits war crimes’. “It is difficult to understand how a children’s hospital and maternity ward in Mariupol could pose a threat to Vladimir Putin. But on Wednesday, the Russian air force bombed the hospital anyway, burying pregnant women, babies and children under the rubble,” the British newspaper reported. The Daily Telegraph† According to the German Bild Zeitung “Keep bombing the tyrant from the Kremlin” and there is talk of genocide, according to President Zelensky.
The attack took place “while Russia had agreed to a 12-hour ceasefire to allow refugees to be evacuated” from several cities in Ukraine, emphasizes CNN† “The medical building where the children were treated has been completely destroyed.” For the Wall Street Journal this bombardment is proof that the Russian invasion has “entered a new phase, more brutal and targeting the civilian population.” The video from the Mariupol hospital shows ‘a large crater’, as well as ‘fallen trees and charred cars’.
In USA Today Human rights lawyer Carli Pierson says ‘Russia has done the unthinkable’. The image of a ‘bloody pregnant woman being carried on a stretcher amid a scene of destruction made me shudder with rage. Putin is a war criminal, guilty of genocide.” In the port city of Mariupol – a strategic point through which Russia wants to create a corridor between the Crimean peninsula (illegally annexed in 2014) and the Donbass region – the situation is ‘apocalyptic’, writes El Paiswith reference to a statement from the Red Cross.
Op1 also reacted with horror:
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