War in Ukraine: a newborn killed in a strike on a maternity hospital, Volodymyr Zelensky accuses Moscow of spreading “terror”

At least three civilians, including a newborn, were killed on Wednesday November 23 after new Russian strikes in Ukraine. “The enemy has once again decided to try to accomplish by terror and murder what they could not accomplish in nine months” of its invasion of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky said on Telegram, promising that Russia “will be held accountable for all the harm she has inflicted on our country”.

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Shortly before, the Ukrainian emergency services had announced the death of a newborn baby killed by a Russian strike on a maternity hospital in the Zaporizhia region in southern Ukraine.

“A baby born in 2022 is dead”

“On the night of November 23, in the city of Vilniansk in the Zaporizhia region, a two-storey building housing a maternity hospital was destroyed by a missile attack”, the state service for emergencies said on Telegram. This strike hit the maternity section of the local hospital, where a woman, her baby and a doctor were.

Following this attack, “a baby born in 2022 is dead”, said the emergency service, noting that his mother and the doctor were rescued from the rubble. The woman was injured, President Zelensky said on Telegram. “The terrorist state continues to wage war on civilians”he lambasted.

The small town of Vilniansk is 45 km from the front line in the north of the Zaporizhia region, most of which in the south is occupied by Russian troops after Moscow announced the annexation of this territory at the end of September. On November 17, a Russian strike already destroyed a building there, killing ten people, including three children.

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Two dead in Kharkiv region

In the Kharkiv region, in the northeast of the country, another Russian bombardment on Wednesday morning killed two people, a 55-year-old woman and a 68-year-old man, regional governor Oleg Synegoubov explained on Telegram. One person was hospitalized, another received first aid on the spot, the governor said, according to which the bombing hit a residential building and a hospital.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday it had recorded more than 700 attacks on Ukrainian health facilities since the start of the Russian invasion in February, which it says constitutes “a manifest violation” international humanitarian law. “Hundreds of hospitals and health facilities are no longer fully operational”WHO regional director for Europe Hans Kluge told reporters at a news conference in Kyiv.

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