Maternity hospital blasted as Russia steps up Kherson blitz
A MATERNITY hospital was targeted yesterday as Russia stepped up its bombardment of the Ukrainian city of Kherson.
Thirty-three missiles were fired at the recently liberated southern city in just 24 hours as more of its inhabitants were forced to flee.
The maternity hospital was among the civilian targets hit as Moscow also increased its mortar and artillery attacks.
TV footage showed workmen replacing shattered windows with sheets of board amid the rubble of damaged brick walls. a baby’s picture hung in an empty room and beds and hospital equipment stood empty and unused.
Officials last night urged Kherson residents to evacuate to safer regions.
Fierce fighting also continued around the Ukrainian-held frontline city of Bakhmut in the eastern province of Donetsk.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday there was no place in the city that is ‘not covered in blood’, adding that ‘only a few civilians’ remain where there was a pre-war population of 70,000.
part of the mobilisation drive will ‘There is no hour when the terrible be able to get their sperm frozen roar of artillery does not sound. for free in cryobanks, state media Still, Bakhmut stands,’ he said. claimed yesterday.
Russia has offered to freeze the Russia called up more than sperm of men called up to fight in 300,000 reservists to support what Ukraine in case they die, as the it calls its ‘special military operation’ Kremlin seeks to persuade more in Ukraine in a mobilisation to join up. Troops who have been drive launched in September. This prompted hundreds of thousands of Russian men to flee from the country to avoid being conscripted, and sparked the largest anti-Kremlin protests since Russia sent in its troops into Ukraine in February.
Many of the recruits are said to be poorly trained and equipped.
The Kremlin insisted that any proposals to end the conflict must accept Russia’s annexation of four Ukrainian regions: Luhansk and Donetsk in the east, and Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in the south.
‘There can be no peace plan that does not take into account today’s realities regarding… the entry of four regions into Russia,’ Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
Kyiv is aiming to develop air-toair combat drones that can attack the exploding drones used by Russia, Ukraine’s technology minister revealed. Mykhailo Fedorov said the conflict was the first major war of the internet age.