Maternity from the Ukrainian city of Mariupol is forcibly evacuated to Russia

The mayor’s office Mariupol denounced this Wednesday the forced evacuation to Russia of a maternity hospital in this besieged city in the southeast of Ukrainewhere another maternity hospital was bombed by the Russians on March 9.

“More than 70 people – women and medical personnel – were forcibly taken away by the occupiers,” the mayor’s office said on Telegram.

In total, more than 20,000 inhabitants of Mariupol have been evacuated “against their will” to Russiaaccording to the municipality, which claims that the Russians confiscated their documents and redirected them “to remote Russian cities.”

This information could not be independently verified, as Mariupol it has been under siege since the end of February and communications have been interrupted.

Another maternity and children’s hospital in Mariupol they were hit by shelling on March 9, an action that sparked international outrage. At least three people, including a child, were killed in the attack.

The head of Russian diplomacy, Sergei Lavrov, had justified this bombing by assuring that the maternity building served, according to him, as a base for a Ukrainian nationalist battalion.

For his part, the president of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, declared on Tuesday that the Russian attacks against Mariupol they were “a crime against humanity”.

Some 160,000 civilians remain trapped in the beleaguered and battered Mariupol and they face a “humanitarian catastrophe”, since they live in shelters without electricity and lack food and water, according to the testimonies collected by AFP from those who fled that city.

Source: Elcomercio

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