Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of a war crime over the bombing of the hospital.
However, other officials were more aggressive in their response to the condemnation and said that the attack was staged by the Ukrainian government.
"Russian aviation carried out absolutely no strikes on ground targets in the area. The alleged air strike was completely a staged provocation, that can deceive the Western public but not an expert," Igor Konashenkov, chief spokesperson for the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, said. "This is information terrorism," foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said, according to Reuters.addressed the air strike in a video from Kyiv and accused Russian"invaders" of bringing"evil" to Ukraine.
"What kind of country is this, the Russian Federation, which is afraid of hospitals and maternity hospitals and destroys," Zelensky said in a video, according to a"Did someone in the maternity hospital abuse Russian-speakers? What was that? Was it the 'denazification' of the hospital. It is beyond atrocities already. Everything that the invaders are doing to Mariupol is beyond atrocities already.
"Today, we must be united in condemning this war crime of Russia, which reflects all the evil that the invaders brought to our land," Zelensky said.live blog for updatesA picture of a woman in Ukraine's city Mariupol after an airstrike from Russia. The woman in the picture, named Marianna has been accused of being a"crisis actor" by pro-Russian war supporters.
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