Russia has bombed a disabled care home near Oskil, in Kharkiv province, Ukraine, causing extensive damage although miraculously none of the 330 people inside died
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Russia has bombed a disabled care home with more than 300 people inside, Ukraine claims.
Fortunately none of the 330 people inside died during the strike near Oskil, in Kharkiv province, eastern Ukraine.
The home suffered extensive damage and it is now without heating, electricity or water.
Some of the people staying at the home require wheelchairs, although 63 individuals have been evacuated since the bombing.
It comes after three people were killed when Russia bombed a maternity hospital in Mariupol.
Regional official Oleg Sinegubov wrote on Telegram: “The enemy today hit a specialised establishment for disabled people near Oskil.”
He added that 10 people inside the home needed wheelchairs, while 50 had reduced mobility.
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Another local official, Yuriy Shparaga, wrote on Facebook : “The Russians have again carried out a brutal attack against civilians. It is a war crime against civilians.
“There is no more heating, electricity and water access (in the home). Luckily, there are no victims.”
The victims include a six-year-old child and at least seventeen others were reportedly injured, some of whom included pregnant women.
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Sergei Orlov, Mariupol’s deputy mayor, said: “I’m absolutely sure they know about this facility and this is their third hospital that they are destroying in this city.”
He said a 300-bed hospital dedicated to treating Covid patients had been destroyed by artillery shelling the previous day, along with a blood-collection centre in Mariupol.
“I’m absolutely sure (these are their) targets,” Mr Orlov added.
The World Health Organization says it’s verified at least 18 different attacks on health facilities in Ukraine since the invasion began.
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Russia insists Ukrainian fighters had moved staff and patients out of the hospital and set up firing positions there.
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has accused Russia of committing a war crime.
It comes after harrowing satellite footage was released showing the impact constant air attacks have had on the southern port city.
Private US satellite firm Maxar has released before and after snaps of Mariupol, which has been surrounded by Kremlin troops amid regular air strikes.
Extensive damage is seen to the eastern city’s civilian infrastructure, including residential homes, high-rise apartment buildings, supermarkets and shopping centres.
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Zelensky tweeted out footage of the barbaric attack and once again called out Moscow’s atrocities in his country.
He said: “Mariupol. Direct strike of Russian troops at the maternity hospital. People, children are under the wreckage. Atrocity!
“How much longer will the world be an accomplice ignoring terror? Close the sky right now! Stop the killings! You have power but you seem to be losing humanity.”
Bodies heartbreakingly lie scattered in the streets of Mariupol as Russia continues to attack the besieged Ukrainian city.
The Red Cross say the humanitarian crisis there is ‘apocalyptic’ and worsening by the hour.
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