Kamala Harris urges probe into strike on Ukraine maternity hospital

• Harris was visiting NATO ally Poland in a present of solidarity towards Moscow’s assaults on Ukraine.
• The vp mentioned “Completely there must be an investigation. And we should always all be watching.”

Vice President Kamala Harris condemned Russia’s assaults on Ukrainian civilians, together with the airstrike on a maternity hospital, and known as for an investigation.

“We’ve got been witnessing for weeks, and definitely simply within the final 24 hours, atrocities of unimaginable proportions,” Harris mentioned. “A maternity hospital, a youngsters’s hospital, the place we’ve witnessed pregnant girls who had been there for look after one cause being taken out as a result of they required care due to an act of violence, unprovoked, unjustified.”

Russian airstrikes hit a maternity hospital within the southern Ukrainian metropolis of Mariupol on Wednesday. Three folks had been killed, together with a baby, and 17 folks wounded.

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‘Horrifying.’:Russia strike on Ukraine maternity hospital attracts outrage as civilian warfare toll rises

Harris, who was visiting NATO ally Poland in a present of solidarity towards Moscow’s assaults on Ukraine, famous the United Nations has already began to evaluate Russian assaults on civilians.

“Completely there must be an investigation. And we should always all be watching,” Harris mentioned at a information convention with Polish President Andrzej Duda. “I’ve no query the eyes of the world are on this warfare and what Russia has carried out by way of this aggression and these atrocities.”

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