Russian Strikes Hit Red Cross Building In Mariupol: Ukraine

The latest news from Kyiv is that the building of the Red Cross was attacked and bombed by the Russian forces. This is a Military crime against the humanitarian organization Red Cross.  

Kyiv: 

Russian forces struck a Red Cross facility in the besieged and destroyed southern Ukraine port city of Mariupol, Kyiv, where officials have warned of an unfolding humanitarian disaster.

“In Mariupol, the occupiers aimed at the building of the International Committee of the Red Cross,” Ukrainian ombudswoman Lyudmyla Denisova said in a statement on social media.

“Enemy aircraft and artillery fired on a building marked with a red cross on a white background, indicating the presence of wounded people or civilian or humanitarian cargo,” the statement said.

Denisova did not specify when the strikes had taken place and said there was no confirmation yet if anyone had been killed or injured in the attack.

Russian forces have encircled the strategic southern city and their steady indiscriminate shelling has killed at least 5,000 people, officials say, estimating total deaths could be as many as 10,000.

Mariupol, a strategic port city in the south of Ukraine, has been reduced to rubble by constant Russian bombarding. Tens of thousands of civilians are said to be trapped in the city with no electricity, and little food and water.

The International Committee For the Red Cross has described the situation in Mariupol as “apocalyptic.”