Russias military will likely provide details into the bombing of a childrens hospital in Ukraine that local authorities said had killed three people, including a young girl, the Kremlinsaid Thursday.The Mariupol city council in southern Ukraine said Wednesdays attack on the childrens and maternity hospital killed three people and injured 17.
The United Nations, the White House, Britain and Ukraines President Volodymyr Zelenskiy denounced the attack as horrific, barbaric, depraved and a war crime.The military will probably provide some information [on the Mariupol hospital attack].
I cant say, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters during a daily briefing.We will definitely ask our military, Peskov was quoted as saying by the state-run TASS news agency.You and I dont have clear information about what happened there.He spoke after Russias Foreign Ministry accused Ukrainian nationalist battalions of moving out staff and patients and using the hospital to set up firing positions.
Moscow has denied targeting civilians as its invasion of pro-Western Ukraine enters its third week.Russias deputy chief of mission at the United Nations accused UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres of spreading fake news about the attack.Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov claimed on Thursday that the hospital had been serving as a military base for nationalists."This maternity hospital has long been occupied by the Azov Battalion and other radicals.
They drove out the women in labour, nurses and general staff.
It was the base of the ultra-radical Azov Battalion," Lavrov said, following talks in Turkey with his Ukrainian counterpart.Video shared by rescue workers from the site showed a scene of complete devastation, with the wounded being evacuated, some on stretchers, past charred and burning carcasses of cars and a deep crater by the building.Inside, debris, shattered glass and splintered wood littered corridors, administrative offices and bedrooms, with mattresses thrown from their frames.Mariupol city council said 1,200 residents have been killed over nine days of Russias siege of the city.AFP contributed reporting.