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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of committing a war crime by bombing a maternity and children's hospital in the besieged city of Mariupol. A regional governor said at least 17 people had been injured. Video footage showed a building which had been reduced to a shell, with windows blown out and huge crater nearby.

Russia insists Ukrainian fighters had moved staff and patients out of the hospital and set up firing positions there. The World Health Organization says it's verified at least eighteen different attacks on health facilities in Ukraine since the invasion began. Mariupol's mayor says more than 1200 civilians have been killed in the city since Russia began its bombardment.

Newsday heard from Andrei Krilenko, a professor in the UK who was born in Mariupol and whose his mother is still there. Andrei says there needs to be an understanding in the West that there is an effort to kill off an entire nation.

"Russia just wants to exterminate Ukrainians so they're no more."

(Pic: Debris on the site of the destroyed Mariupol children鈥檚 hospital in Ukraine; Credit: Reuters)

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