At least 71 children have been killed in Ukraine since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a war on Feb 24, a Ukrainian parliament official said on Thursday.
“From the start of the Russian invasion and up to 11am (0900 GMT) on Thursday, 71 children have been killed and more than 100 wounded,” Lyudmyla Denisova, parliament’s point person on human rights, wrote in a Telegram message.
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Thursday condemned Russia’s bombing of a maternity hospital in Ukraine’s Mariupol and demanded Moscow allow aid into the besieged city.
“Russia’s shelling of maternity hospital is a heinous war crime. Strikes of residential areas from the air and blocks of access of aid convoys by the Russian forces must immediately stop. Safe passage is needed, now,” Borrell wrote in a tweet.
