A Russian attack on a maternity hospital in the Ukrainian region of Zaporizhia, in the south of the country, has caused the death of a newborn baby, the head of the Regional State Administration, Oleksandr Starukh, reported on Wednesday.
"At night, the occupants fired missiles at a small maternity ward of the Vilniansk hospital. Pain fills our hearts: a newborn baby died," Starukh's statement, released by local agencies, states.
Emergency and rescue teams are now working at the scene of the attack to find other possible victims. Other sources indicate that after the incident a mother admitted to the center could be rescued, something that has not been confirmed by the authorities.
The air raid alert was launched in the region at 02:07 last morning, for which local authorities urged citizens to take refuge immediately.
Zaporizhia is one of four regions of Ukraine that Russia has recently annexed, along with neighboring Kherson, Lugansk and Donetsk, all in the east of the country, although Moscow does not fully control any of them.
The largest atomic power plant in Europe is located in the Zaporizhia region, currently in the hands of the Russians, and its territory has been the object of multiple attacks in recent weeks, which have made the international community fear the possibility that it could be produce a nuclear accident.
Two other people have died in the last hours in another Russian attack in Kupiansk, in the Kharkov region, in the northeast of the country and whose capital is the second largest city in Ukraine.
"The occupiers shelled the city: an apartment building and a polyclinic were attacked. Two passers-by were killed," the deputy head of the Office of the Ukrainian President, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, posted on his Telegram account on Wednesday.
