Editor’s note: This page recaps the news from Ukraine on Thursday, March 10. Follow here for the latest updates and news from Friday, March 11, as Russia’s invasion continues.
Russian forces bombarded the Ukrainian city Mariupol again on Thursday amid international outrage over the bombing of a children’s hospital there, while a massive convoy that has been stalled for over a week outside Kyiv appeared to split up into surrounding towns and forests.
Civilians in the port city of Mariupol are facing increasingly dire conditions with scarce food, fuel and electricity. Bodies are being buried in mass graves.
The Kremlin displayed harried confusion in its response to criticism Thursday, at times completely denying the Mariupol hospital bombing and at other moments alleging an elaborate propaganda ploy by the West.
Photos and video of the bombing’s aftermath clearly show severely injuried people – including a pregnant woman – being taken by stretcher from the rubble.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, however, has said the building was a hospital and called the attack an “atrocity.”
The hospital complex in Mariupol bombed Wednesday resulted in at least three deaths, including one child, Ukraine authorities say. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov dismissed the claim Thursday, saying the hospital had been emptied of patients and was being used as an extremist base.
The attack was condemned internationally and branded a “war crime” by Ukrainian and Western leaders. French…
