Russia-Ukraine War: Strike on Ukrainian Maternity Hospital Kills Newborn
The region's governor said the rockets were Russian. The strike in the city of Vilniansk adds to the gruesome toll suffered by hospitals and other medical facilities — and their patients and staff — in the Russian invasion entering its tenth month this week.
Kyiv, November 23: An overnight rocket attack struck a hospital maternity ward in southern Ukraine, killing a newborn baby, its mother and a doctor were pulled alive from the rubble, Ukrainian authorities said on Wednesday. Russia-Ukraine War: Top Russian Official Warns of Possible Nuclear Accident at Zaporizhzhia Power Plant.
The region's governor said the rockets were Russian. The strike in the city of Vilniansk adds to the gruesome toll suffered by hospitals and other medical facilities — and their patients and staff — in the Russian invasion entering its tenth month this week. Russia-Ukraine War: Russian Strikes Hits Ukraine’s Southern Odesa Region, City of Dnipro First Time in Weeks.
They have been in the firing line from the outset, including a March 9 airstrike that destroyed a maternity hospital in the now-occupied port city of Mariupol.