Airstrike hits Ukraine maternity hospital, 17 reported hurt

By EVGENIY MALOLETKA
Associated Press

MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian airstrike has devastated a maternity hospital in the besieged port city of Mariupol. Ukrainian officials say at least 17 people were wounded. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the strike trapped children and others under the rubble. The attack comes amid growing warnings from the West that Moscow’s invasion is about to take a more brutal and indiscriminate turn. The World Health Organization says it has confirmed 18 attacks on health facilities and ambulances since the fighting began. Elsewhere, civilians are trying to escape shelling on the outskirts of Kyiv, and many of them are streaming toward the capital.