War Crimes Documented

[David Morris]

NOT Muscovite troll/bot:

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2022/03/europe/mariupol-maternity-hospital-attack/index.html

Medical facilities and workers have been repeatedly hit by Russian forces
since their invasion of Ukraine, despite this being against the rules of war
<https://www.icrc.org/en/document/10-things-rules-of-war-Geneva-Conventions>.
The World Health Organization (WHO) listed
<https://www.who.int/director-general/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-remarks-at-united-nations-security-council-meeting-on-ukraine-17-march-2022>
43
verified attacks as of March 17.

“Every single attack deprives people of life-saving services.”
– World Health Organization

*March 9, Mariupol*
An airstrike ripped through a maternity and children’s hospital in the
southeastern city of Mariupol, which has been under siege by Russian forces.

Russian officials claimed the hospital was a justifiable military target,
based on their unproven assertion that Ukrainian military targets were on
site and that all patients and medical staff had left.

CNN built a model to identify all the indicators showing that this hospital
complex was still in use by civilians.
Here is a breakdown of what happened.

Russia appears to have set the stage to justify a strike on hospital
facilities in Mariupol in the days before.

*March 7*
Russia’s UN ambassador Vasily Nebenzya told the UN Security Council
<https://www.c-span.org/video/?518449-1/un-security-council-meeting-ukraine-humanitarian-crisis&live>that
the Ukrainian military, according to local residents, had driven out all
personnel from Mariupol’s maternity hospital No.1 to convert it to a combat
position.

*March 9, 12:05 p.m.*
Just a couple of hours before the attack, Russian Foreign Ministry
spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said hospital No. 3 was empty of staff and
patients and being used as a firing position.

CNN has found no evidence to support Russia’s allegations that there were
military positions set up at Hospital No. 3 on the afternoon of March 9,
and it was civilians who emerged from the bombed-out buildings.

“We were lying in wards when glass, frames, windows and walls flew apart.
We don’t know how it happened. We were in our wards and some had time to
cover themselves. Some didn’t.” These were the words of Mariana
Vishegirskaya, a survivor of the attack, to the Associated Press (AP).

Despite Vishegirskaya speaking publicly about her experience to AP, Russia
accused her and others of being actors and not real victims. This is the
claim that the Russian ambassador to the Netherlands makes on a Dutch news
program.