Maternity hospital in Mariupol is bombed leaving children buried under rubble and mothers injured as Zelensky accuses world leaders of being 'accomplices to terror'

"A maternity hospital in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol has been decimated in a 'direct hit' by
Russian rockets leaving children buried in the rubble, President Zelensky has said, in what he described as an 'atrocity.'

Footage has emerged of badly wounded patients and nurses being evacuated from decimated buildings, while pregnant women were carried out on stretchers into a courtyard covered in rubble and littered with huge craters.

Zelensky himself posted a video showing the badly damaged hospital buildings, filmed inside a destroyed ward room with its windows blown out and ceiling partially collapsed. More footage showed a car park covered in rubble and the smouldering wrecks of vehicles as injured families staggered into the freezing air while snow fell. 

'Direct strike of Russian troops at the maternity hospital. People, children are under the wreckage. Atrocity! How much longer will the world be an accomplice ignoring terror? Close the sky right now! Stop the killings! You have power but you seem to be losing humanity,' the President tweeted. 

In a later interview with Sky News, Zelensky added that Russian invaders want Ukrainians 'to feel like animals' by preventing them from accessing food or water, and again implored NATO and the West to impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine." DM