Three people, including a child, were killed in a Russian bomb attack on a children’s hospital in Mariupol on Wednesday, the port city’s town hall announced Thursday. Three people were killed, including a girl., The municipality said in a telegram. An earlier statement had called for the beleagured PM to resign.

“Barbarism”, “Immoral”, “war crime” : Russian forces shell a children’s hospital in the besieged city of Mariupol as Russian forces approach Kiev on Thursday, sparking outrage from Ukrainian authorities and Westerners. The attack comes ahead of talks between Russian and Ukrainian foreign ministers in Turkey on Thursday, and their first direct confrontation since the start of the Russian offensive in Ukraine two weeks ago.

French government spokesman Gabriel Attal condemned the strikes on Thursday “Inhumane and cowardly” . “I want to say this on behalf of the French government: Russia’s strikes against Mariupol Children’s Hospital are inhumane and cowardly. Women, children and caregivers are being targeted.In RTL Mr. Atal said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zhelensky condemned the attack “war crime”, Videos were shared on Wednesday showing the devastation of an institution that had a maternity hospital and a pediatric hospital in Mariupol, a strategic port on the Sea of ​​Azov in southeastern Ukraine. The interiors of the buildings were swept away and debris, sheets of paper and pieces of glass could be seen scattered on the floor.

The White House, for its part, condemned an application “Barbaric” The anti-civilian force, and the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson called it a bombing“Immoral”.

The bomber struck shortly after noon in front of a hospital giving birth to a baby girl.

The Russian government did not deny the attack, but said so “Nationalist Battalions” The Ukrainians used the hospital as a base for the shooting. The city hall said Wednesday evening that 1,207 people had already been killed in the nine days of the siege of Mariupol.