A newborn baby was killed in a Russian attack on a maternity hospital in the Moscow-annexed Zaporizhia region of southern Ukraine, Ukrainian emergency services said on Wednesday.
“On the night of November 23, in the city of Vilnyansk in the Zaporizhia region, a two-story building that housed a maternity hospital was destroyed by a rocket attack in the area of the local hospital,” rescuers said in a message posted on a social network.
The mother could be saved
“As a result of the attack, the baby born in 2022 died,” according to the same source, who said his mother and the doctor were rescued from the rubble.
The woman was injured, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Telegram. “The terrorist state continues to wage war on civilians,” he said.
The emergency service released a video showing rescuers trying to free a man half buried in rubble.
The small city of Vilniansk is located in the north of the Zaporojjia region, most of which in the south is occupied by Russian troops, while Moscow has announced the annexation of this territory.
Source: BFM TV
