Russian forces struck a maternity hospital in Kherson on Saturday as Moscow continues to bomb civilian targets heavily as both sides battle it out across the Dnieper River.
No casualties were reported by Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the president’s office, who confirmed the attack according to local news outlets.
The latest attack on a maternity hospital comes a day when 68 missiles are reported to have rained down on Kherson and just weeks after Russian forces hit a maternity ward in Zaporizhzhia and killed a two-day-old baby.
Image capture from footage released by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Thursday, March 9, 2022 allegedly shows the aftermath of the Russian Army’s bombing of a children’s hospital in Mariupol, southeastern Ukraine, which caused massive destruction.
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Ukraine’s police forces said on Saturday that they had reported some 47,000 war crimes since the invasion began more than nine months ago.
Chief of the Ukrainian National Police Ihor Klymenko said the reports include reports of torture, rape and murder of civilians.
The figure is slightly lower than that reported by Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office earlier this month, when it said that more than 51,000 incidents amounting to war crimes have been committed.
Kiev this week asked the United States to back a tribunal that would hold Russia’s top leadership accountable for crimes committed in Ukraine, not just individual actors.
The EU has already supported 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 their withdrawal from Kherson, Ukraine. The Biden administration announced an additional $275 million in military aid to Ukraine on Friday.
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A State Department spokesman told Fox News Digital it was “carefully examining proposals for a special court” and said it appeared to be “keeping pace with Kyiv’s strongest partners”.
“We are working with all of our international partners as we consider mechanisms to hold Russia accountable,” the spokesman added. “Our careful review of the Special Court proposals includes working with all relevant stakeholders.”
Ukraine has made progress in its eastern regions in recent months, including recapturing the city of Kherson in November.
But Kiev has warned it expects Moscow to be planning something in the south as Ukraine tries to keep Russia on the defensive and drive its troops out of the region.
Anatoly Sikoza, who buried the bodies, stands Nov. 27, 2022, in the rubble of a house where Russian forces killed seven men and a woman, with their hands tied, blindfolded and shot at close range.
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The British Defense Ministry said on Saturday that Ukraine had liberated about 54% of territory captured by Russia following its invasion.
Russia is now estimated to be in control of just 18 percent of Ukraine’s internationally recognized regions, including Donbass and Crimea, which Russia has occupied since 2014.
