Russian bombing of Mariupol maternity hospital, where Iryna Kalinina and her baby died during an emergency caesarean section.
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The consequences of the Russian bombing of the maternity hospital in Mariupol in March 2022 were documented by journalists Mstyslav Chernov and Evgen Maloletka
Those in the Drama Theatre area ate all of the pigeons... A neighbour... was killed during the evacuation from the Drama Theatre when [the Russians] dropped a bomb on it.
The defense of the Azovstal steel plant, Ukraine's last stronghold during the Russian siege of Mariupol in the spring of 2022, remains one of the most heroic operations carried out by the Ukrainian soldiers to date. The plant was under constant Russian bombardment for nearly two months.
Russian forces directly hit a maternity hospital in Mariupol during the 2022 invasion, an event captured by Mstyslav Chernov.
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Source story: 3884360-not-only-a-strike-on-okhmatdyt-hospital-russian-war-crimes-against-ukrainian-children