Dramatic drone footage has emerged of Russian vehicles and a command centre apparently under fire by the Ukrainian army.
A new video shows rockets being fired on Russian forces in the port city of Mariupol where the invaders bombed a maternity and children’s hospital last week, killing at least four people.
Plumes of dark smoke and flames began rising from the BTR-82 APC and KamAZ-63968 ‘Typhoon’ vehicles after the explosions.
According to the latest Ukrainian estimates as of March 14 cited by the Kyiv Independent, Vladimir Putin has lost more than 12,000 troops, 77 planes, 90 helicopters, 389 tanks, 1,249 armoured personnel carriers and 64 multiple rocket launchers.
Even though the Ukrainian army continues to push back against the aggressor in Mariupol, at least 2,500 people have been killed in the city since the war started, according to Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych.
Civilians there have been trapped for days without food, water or access to medicine.
Another aerial clip released yesterday morning allegedly shows the Russian command and control center near Vasylivka, in the Mykolaiv region, wiped out, the Daily Mail reported.
President Volodymyr Zelensky slammed the Kremlin for ‘torturing’ the tens of thousands of women, children and elderly who have spent more than a week without vital supplies and electricity.
Numerous attempts to evacuate people through ‘humanitarian corridors’ have also been impaired by savage attacks from Russian troops.
The UK’s health secretary Sajid Javid condemned the recent air strike on the hospital, stressing it was ‘an appalling atrocity’ and ‘a war crime’.
‘Under international law you cannot attack health facilities, hospitals,’ he told Sky News.
‘The most recent information I have from the World Health Organisation is they now have documented evidence of at least 31 such attacks on health facilities, hospitals, including shelling a couple of days ago, a cancer hospital as well.’
But according to Ukrainian health minister Viktor Lyashko, Russia has destroyed seven hospitals that cannot be rebuilt and damaged 104.
Six medical workers have also been killed in the airstrikes so far.
A heavily pregnant woman who was pictured being evacuated from under the wreckage of the hospital in Mariupol also became the latest victim of the shelling alongside her unborn baby, it was announced this morning.
The horrifying image showing her stroking her bloodied lower abdomen went viral following the bombing, which Russia has branded as ‘fake news’.
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