103 children have reportedly been killed by heartless Russian forces, forcing parents to leave their small preterm kids at a hospital.
Thousands of scared Ukrainians have fled their homes nearly three weeks after Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion began, with Russian soldiers bombing key cities repeatedly.
Mariupol has been shelled on a regular basis, prompting 20,000 Ukrainians to flee the beleaguered city, and more than 2,300 people have been killed in the area.
However, among the frenzied sights of people attempting to flee, a heartbreaking image from the city’s number three hospital shows three premature newborns in a bed, abandoned by their distraught parents.
Russian forces continue to attack hospitals in Mariupol, with Putin’s army apparently kidnapping hundreds of staff and patients to use as human shields.
Residents in the area were reportedly driven out of their homes and into a hospital.
Around 400 people are being prevented from leaving the Mariupol Regional Intensive Care Hospital, according to Sergei Orlov.
He told the BBC: “We received information that the Russian army captured our biggest hospital… and they’re using our patients and doctors like hostages.
“We can confirm this information and also the governor of Donetsk region has confirmed this information. We received information that there are 400 people there.”
Russian troops were taking individuals from surrounding buildings and forcing them into the hospital, according to Pavlo Kyrylenko, the governor of the Donetsk region.
According to reports, Russian soldiers have threatened to shoot anyone who attempts to flee.
Mariupol is rapidly running out of food, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and citizens are in desperate need of water, heat, and medicine.
And Ukraine’s deputy prime minister, Iryna Vereshchuk, warned there were major challenges delivering humanitarian help to the desperate metropolis of 430,000 people.
She claimed that a truckload of goods was stalled near Berdyansk.
Around 20,000 people have managed to evacuate the city by driving along a humanitarian corridor agreed upon with Russian forces, while hundreds of others remain besieged by shelling, many without heat, electricity, or running water.
