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BREAKING: Russia Bombs Children’s Hospital, ‘Destruction is Colossal’
An “atrocity” where “the destruction is colossal” is how the bombing site of a Ukrainian children’s hospital is being described by authorities. Ukraine accused Russia on Wednesday of bombing the hospital in Mariupol during an agreed ceasefire. The ceasefire was supposed to allow civilians a moment to escape the war.
“Direct strike of Russian troops at the maternity hospital. People, children are under the wreckage,” Volodymyr Zelensky said on Twitter. “Russia had said it would hold fire to let thousands of civilians flee Mariupol and other besieged cities on Wednesday. But the city council said the hospital had been hit several times by an air strike” reports Reuters.
“The destruction is colossal,” said the city council in an online post. President Volodymyr Zelensky called it an “atrocity”. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, asked by Reuters for comment on the reported bombing, said: “Russian forces do not fire on civilian targets.”
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry posted video footage of what it said was the hospital showing holes where windows should have been in a three-story building. 17 people were wounded, including women in labor. Reuters said the reports could not immediately be verified.
Reuters reports:
Earlier Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Russia had broken the ceasefire around the southern port, which lies between Russian-backed separatist areas of eastern Ukraine and Crimea, annexed by Moscow from Ukraine in 2014.
“Russia continues holding hostage over 400,000 people in Mariupol, blocks humanitarian aid and evacuation. Indiscriminate shelling continues,” he wrote on Twitter. “Almost 3,000 newborn babies lack medicine and food.”
Ukraine officials have also said that at least 1,170 civilians had been killed in Mariupol since the start of the invasion. A gruesome 47 people were buried in a mass grave on Wednesday. It was not possible to verify the figures, reported Reuters.
Russia’s defence ministry blamed Ukraine for the failure of the evacuation and said that the situation faced by civilians in Mariupol had reached a “catastrophic scale”. A senior U.S. defence official said there were indications Russia’s military was using so-called “dumb” bombs that are not precision-guided and that Washington had observed “increasing damage to civilian infrastructure and civilian casualties”.
The Guardian, a left-wing media outlet, has taken down Osama bin Laden’s notorious “Letter to America” from its website this week after the words of the deceased terrorist mastermind, responsible for the attacks on September 11, 2001, gained traction on social media.
The letter, which had been published on The Guardian’s website since 2002, resurfaced online, causing a sudden spike in traffic. Social media users unearthed and shared the anti-American and antisemitic content, propelling the document to viral status. The Guardian, acknowledging the increased circulation without the full context, opted to remove the transcript.
According to reports from Fox News Digital, a spokesperson for The Guardian stated, “The transcript published on our website 20 years ago has been widely shared on social media without the full context. Therefore we have decided to take it down and direct readers to the news article that originally contextualized it instead.” The outlet declined to provide additional comments on the matter.
Osama bin Laden’s letter, translated into English, justified al-Qaeda’s attacks against the U.S. by citing American actions in Palestine. The deceased terrorist accused the U.S. of supporting the creation and continuation of Israel, labeling it one of the “greatest crimes” that must be erased. Bin Laden’s letter also propagated antisemitic tropes, claiming Jews control American policies, media, and the economy.
The 9/11 attacks, orchestrated by al-Qaeda, resulted in the deaths of nearly 3,000 people and left thousands more injured. The letter’s resurgence occurred as it was shared by social media influencers on platforms like TikTok, with some expressing a change in perspective. Pro-Palestinian activist Lynette Adkins was among those who shared the letter online, prompting discussions and reflections.
The Guardian’s decision to remove the letter from its website underscores the sensitivity surrounding the content and its potential impact, particularly as young individuals across America engage with pro-Palestinian talking points. The episode has sparked debates about the influence of social media in reshaping perceptions and the responsibility of media outlets in disseminating controversial historical documents.
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SeeingDouble
March 10, 2022 at 6:06 pm
Are we supposed to believe *this* really dubious report after all of the proven fake news reports coming out about this conflict? A children’s hospital? “What a monster! I knew Putin was a monster!” I mean, c’mon. Next thing you know, they’ll be reporting this monster is “putting kids in cages!” or “ripping them from their mother’s arms!” Oh, wait…
Frankenator
March 10, 2022 at 6:10 pm
Reconvene Nurenburg.
Chris Bottle
March 10, 2022 at 8:21 pm
Hi Sarah. I’ve seen pictures on other websites of Ukrainian civilians being trained in how to use weapons in front of an empty building. That building looks suspiciously like the bombed “hospital”. In light of the news of the “Ukrainian” bio-labs is anybody telling the truth anymore? Apart from a great show the other day by Tucker Carlson revealing all about this, nobody else has said anything. I’m writing from Melbourne, Australia and even Sky News. our version of Fox, as of yesterday hadn’t mentioned the labs. A sad state of affairs isn’t it?
Stan Stanfield
March 10, 2022 at 11:27 pm
Since the Dark forces are going all-out to paint Russia as the Bad Guy in this conflict – even to denying what has now been admitted, that there are bioweapons labs in Ukraine; a potential crime against humanity, were such pathogens to be released (with some evidence that they have already been released, in some trial runs) – and nothing is beyond what they would do to win the day on their side, being mostly atheists and having no morals, I would be careful to buy their take on this event. And Reuters? Not a good source of true information. It’s time for Truth to prevail in our communications, not all of this propaganda, which leaves one to doubt most of what the MSM attempts to get us to believe.
Mike
March 11, 2022 at 5:10 pm
It has been a fact (United Nations statements) that AZOV has been bombing and shelling citizens in eastern Ukraine since 2014. AZOV is the main element of the Ukraine army stationed in eastern Ukraine and are Nazis. Swastika is on their flag.