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A maternity hospital in the coastal Ukrainan city of Mariupol sustained heavy damage on Wednesday after a Russian airstrike.
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Many people were wounded in the strike and according to a report by AP, “The ground shook more than a mile away when the Mariupol complex was hit by a series of blasts that blew out windows and ripped away much of the front of one building. Police and soldiers rushed to scene to evacuate victims, carrying out a heavily pregnant and bleeding woman on a stretcher.”
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Emergency workers carry an injured pregnant woman from the damaged maternity hospital.
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Ukrainian soldiers and emergency employees work near the maternity hospital.
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Mariupol I March 9
A man carries his child away from the hospital.
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A woman walks outside the hospital.
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A medical worker walks through the damage.
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An injured pregnant woman walks down stairs.
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A woman walks outside the hospital.
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A car burns outside the hospital.
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Ukrainian servicemen inside the hospital after it sustained damage during a Russian airstrike.
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Mariupol I March 9
The scene of the damage caused by a Russian airstrike at a maternity hospital.
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