Mariupol children's hospital destroyed in targeted attack, Ukrainian officials say

A children's hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, was destroyed Wednesday in what Ukrainian officials said was a targeted attack by Russian airstrikes.

A children's hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, was destroyed Wednesday in what Ukrainian officials said was a targeted attack by Russian airstrikes, as the deputy mayor warned the hard-hit city is on the "brink of a humanitarian catastrophe."

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted a video on social media Wednesday that he said showed the heavily damaged children's hospital and maternity ward in the southeastern Ukrainian port city.

"Direct strike of Russian troops at the maternity hospital," he said, calling on the international community again to impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine. "People, children are under the wreckage. Atrocity! How much longer will the world be an accomplice ignoring terror?"

Pavlo Kirilenko, the head of the Donetsk regional military administration, claimed in a post on Facebook that a Russian aircraft deliberately targeted the 600-bed hospital.