Russian forces occupy Mariupol hospital, hold patients and staff hostage: Ukrainian human rights group

Residents of Mariupol, Ukraine, have reportedly contacted a human rights group with complaints that Russian forces have occupied an intensive care hospital.

The Media Initiative for Human Rights in Ukraine stated in a Tuesday Fb put up that residents of town contacted its hotline to report the occupation of Russian troops on the Mariupol Regional Intensive Care Hospital.

“Hospital workers and sufferers are held hostage,” the media hotline stated.

Russian forces are apparently firing on the home windows of the hospital in an effort to set off a response from Ukrainian troopers, in line with the Media Initiative for Human Rights.

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Russian troops have threatened to shoot at these making an attempt to flee, the group stated.

“The Media Initiative for Human Rights calls on the worldwide neighborhood to take all doable measures to cease the Russian Federation warfare crime, which is occurring simply at this second, and to launch docs, sufferers, civilians” whom the Russian military is holding hostage as a “residing defend,” the Media Initiative stated, in line with a Fb translation.

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A witness claimed Russian troops are forcing different civilians contained in the hospital as properly, as Ukrainian journalist Anastasia Magazova first reported.

A lady walks previous a burning condo constructing after shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, Sunday, March 13, 2022.
(AP Picture/Evgeniy Maloletka)

The intensive care hospital occupation comes after Russian forces shelled a maternity ward final week, killing a complete of 5 individuals, together with a mom and her unborn baby, and injuring greater than a dozen others.

Ukrainian emergency workers and volunteers carry an injured pregnant girl from a maternity hospital broken by shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 9, 2022. (AP Picture/Evgeniy Maloletka)

The assaults in opposition to Mariupol have left residents with out water, gasoline, electrical energy and meals. 

Russia has not stored agreements to maintain humanitarian corridors accessible to civilians making an attempt to flee the port metropolis, in line with Ukrainian officers.