Mariupol hospital airstrike

Mariupol hospital airstrike
Mariupol hospital airstrike
Part of the Siege of Mariupol
	Hospital in Mariupol after airstrike
Location	Mariupol, Ukraine
Coordinates	47°05′47″N 37°32′01″E / 47.09645°N 37.53373°E
Date	9 March 2022
Deaths	4 + 1 stillbirth
Injured	at least 17
Perpetrators	Russian Air Force

On 9 March 2022, the Russian Air Force bombed Maternity Hospital No 3, a hospital complex functioning both as a children's hospital and maternity ward in Mariupol, Ukraine,^[1] during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, killing at least four people and injuring at least sixteen, and leading to at least one stillbirth.^[2]

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy,^[3] Josep Borrell, the European Union head of Foreign Affairs,^[2] and British armed forces minister James Heappey^[4] described the bombing as a war crime. On 10 March, the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defence claimed that bombing of the hospital was justified by the supposed presence of Ukrainian armed forces^[5]^[6] at Mariupol Maternity Hospital No 1, as stated by Russian UN representative Vasily Nebenzya earlier, on 7 March.^[1]^[7] Several media organizations dismissed the Russian claims as false.^[8]

An OSCE report concluded the airstrike was a Russian war crime.

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^ Sadeghi, McKenzie. "Fact check: Baseless claims that Russian attack on Mariupol hospital was 'staged'". USA TODAY.

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[8] Sadeghi, McKenzie. "Fact check: Baseless claims that Russian attack on Mariupol hospital was 'staged'". USA TODAY.

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