Ukraine's deputy prime minister and the regional governor said Russian troops took control of an intensive-care hospital in Mariupol.
They also said they were holding 400 people, including medics and patients, hostage there.For more stories go toRussia seized an intensive-care hospital in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol on Tuesday and was holding hundreds of people hostage inside, Ukrainian officials said.on Tuesday that around 400 people at the city's Regional Intensive Care Hospital had been taken as"hostages."
Ukrainian Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said in a Wednesday morning video address that Russian troops"took hostage 400 people, medical staff, and shelling is held from there now," according to anPavlo Kyrylenko, the governor of the Donetsk oblast, where Mariupol is located, made a similar report in aHe cited a note from a hospital employee, which said it was"impossible to leave the hospital, they are shooting hard.
The employee continued, according to Kyrylenko:"Russians rushed 400 people from neighbouring houses to our hospital. We can't leave." Kyrylenko said Russia"practically destroyed" the hospital by bombing it, but medical staff were treating patients in the basement. The strategic port city of Mariupol, which sits on the Black Sea, has been one of the worst hit since Russia invaded Ukraine: So many people have been killed that the city has
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