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Another Ukrainian maternity hospital has been destroyed by Russian rockets, injuring doctors and killing a newborn baby, heartbroken officials said Wednesday.
The overnight strike in Vilniansk, close to the city of Zaporizhzhia, was part of a fresh bombardment across the war-torn country, including the capital, Kyiv, where three people were killed in a two-story building.
“At night, Russian monsters launched huge rockets at the small maternity ward of the hospital in Vilniansk,” regional governor Oleksandr Starukh wrote on Telegram.
“Grief overwhelms our hearts — a baby was killed who had just seen the light of day,” he said, sharing photos of thick smoke rising from the rubble of the hospital.
“A baby who was only two days old was killed, doctors were injured, one of whom received severe burns,” he added in a later post.
“Shelling hospitals and killing children are the realities of Russian terrorism.”
It was just the latest attack on a hospital as Russia’s war enters its 10th month, including the March 9 destruction of a maternity hospital in the now-occupied port city of Mariupol.
