Summary
A maternity ward and children’s ward at a hospital in Mariupol have been destroyed in a Russian air strike, according to officials there. At the moment we don’t know how many people have died.
Russia editor at BBC Monitoring Vitaly Shevchenko and Abdujalil Abdurasulov, who’s a video journalist with the BBC in Kyiv, join Victoria and Gabriel to discuss which cities are being targeted.
Also, BBC World News’ Kasia Madera tell us some of the personal stories she’s been hearing from people fleeing Ukraine. More than two million have now left the country, and Prof Peter Gatrell from the University of Manchester explains how this compares to other conflicts. This episode of Ukrainecast was made by Phil Marzouk, Emma Forde and Alison Gee. The studio director is Emma Crowe. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, it's 14 days since Russian forces invaded Ukraine. |
| 0:09.9 | Since we recorded this episode of Ukraine cast, |
| 0:12.9 | President Zelensky of Ukraine has tweeted a video, |
| 0:16.8 | which he says shows that Russia has bombed a hospital |
| 0:21.0 | in the southern city of Mariupol. |
| 0:27.0 | He's called it an atrocity, |
| 0:28.9 | and footage, which he's posted, |
| 0:30.7 | which he says is from inside the hospital, |
| 0:33.2 | shows the damage and the devastation. |
| 0:36.6 | You can see in one room a pink changing mat |
| 0:39.9 | where you'd place a baby and put their nappy on. |
| 0:42.8 | You can see the slats of one wooden cot. |
| 0:46.5 | But mostly you can see rubble and debris |
| 0:49.5 | and smash windows and upended furniture. |
| 0:53.4 | TV footage showed a heavily pregnant woman |
| 0:56.4 | being carried out of the building on a stretcher, |
| 0:59.1 | a mum clutching her toddler, both crying, |
| 1:03.3 | and another woman having her head bandaged. |
| 1:07.2 | Local officials say 17 people were injured. |
| 1:11.4 | Lila is from Mariupol. |
| 1:13.3 | She says she was born in that hospital, |
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