"The bomb in the maternity hospital - the genocide of Ukrainians," says Zelensky

A maternity hospital and children’s hospital were destroyed in a Russian air raid in the center of Mariupol, killing 17 maternity ward workers and one expectant mother, Pavlo Kirilenko, head of the Donetsk region military administration, said on Wednesday.

“The air bomb at the maternity hospital is the ultimate proof of the genocide of the Ukrainians,” Zelensky said.

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“Europeans! You will not be able to say that you have not seen what happened to the Ukrainians, what is happening to the Marioleans. You have seen, you know. So you must step up sanctions against Russia so that it no longer has any chance of continuing this genocide. You have to push to Russia so that they would sit down at the negotiating table and end this brutal war, “Zelensky called.

“Children’s hospital, maternity hospital. What threatened the Russian Federation? What kind of country is it – the Russian Federation, which is afraid of hospitals, afraid of maternity homes and destroys them? Were there small banners? Did the pregnant women go to Rostov? [pie Donas]? Did anyone humiliate Russian-speakers in the maternity hospital? What was it – the denaciation of the hospital? “Zelensky asked.

He said that Europeans and Ukrainians must be united in condemning this Russian war crime, “which reflects all the evil that the occupiers have brought to our land.”

Zelensky reminded that Mariupol is located in the Donetsk region, about which Russia has talked so much about the population, and now everyone can see how Russia actually treats the population of the Donetsk region.

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“We have never done and would never do anything like this war crime with any city in the Donetsk or Luhansk region, or any region or any city on earth. Because we are human beings. But you?” Zelensky asked, addressing Russia.