Russian forces attacked a maternity hospital in Kherson on Saturday as Moscow continues to shell heavily civilian targets as the two sides clash across the Dnieper river.
Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the President’s Office, reported no casualties and confirmed the attack according to local media.
The latest attack on a maternity hospital comes on a day when 68 missiles reportedly rained down on Kherson and just weeks after Russian forces attacked a maternity ward in Zaporizhzhia, killing a two-day-old baby.
Still image from footage released by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Thursday, March 9, 2022, purportedly shows the aftermath of the Russian army shelling of a children’s hospital in Mariupol, southeastern Ukraine, which caused enormous destruction.
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Ukrainian police forces said on Saturday some 47,000 war crimes incidents had been reported since the invasion began more than nine months ago.
The head of the Ukrainian National Police, Ihor Klymenko, said the accounts include reports of torture, rape and murder of civilians.
The figure is slightly lower than what the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office reported earlier this month when it said more than 51,000 incidents amounting to war crimes had been committed.
kyiv this week called on the US to back a tribunal that would hold Russia’s top leaders accountable for crimes committed in Ukraine, not just individual actors.
The EU has already backed such a proposal, although the US has yet to officially follow suit.
A Ukrainian serviceman patrols the area near the Antonovsky Bridge which was destroyed by Russian forces after they withdrew from Kherson, Ukraine. The Biden administration announced another $275 million in military aid to Ukraine on Friday.
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A State Department spokesperson told Fox News Digital that it was “carefully reviewing proposals for a special tribunal” and said it seeks to “remain on the same level as Kiev’s strongest partners.”
“We are working with all our international partners as we consider mechanisms to hold Russia to account,” the spokesman added. “Our careful review of proposals for a special court includes collaboration with all interested parties.”
Ukraine has made progress in its eastern regions in recent months, including the recapture of the city of Kherson in November.
But kyiv warned that it anticipates that Moscow is planning something in the south, as Ukraine seeks to keep Russia on the defensive and push its troops out of the region.
Anatoly Sikoza, who buried the bodies, stands on November 27, 2022, amid the rubble of a house where Russian forces killed seven men and one woman, their hands tied, their eyes blindfolded and shot at point-blank range.
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On Saturday, the UK Defense Ministry said Ukraine has liberated about 54 percent of the territory that Russia seized after its invasion.
Russia is now estimated to be in control of just 18 percent of Ukraine’s internationally recognized regions, including Donbas and Crimea, which Russia has occupied since 2014.
