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speak easy's JournalIn Mykolaiv, Russia continues pattern of shelling hospitals
Source: Washington Post
MYKOLAIV, Ukraine — Mothers with newborn babies, a woman with a heart condition and elderly people who couldn’t walk on their own hurriedly evacuated to the basement of a Mykolaiv hospital on Sunday night as the booming thuds of artillery drew closer.
They made it down to shelter just in time. Five minutes after patients and staff had crowded into the cramped underground hallway, a suspected cluster munition landed right next to the building. The blast shattered nearly all of the windows.
It made for an eventful first night for Bohdan, who was born in the makeshift bomb shelter after his mother, Vitalina, and others from the maternity ward made the most harrowing journey to safety, from the hospital’s top floor.
“The Russians are animals; there’s no other explanation,” said Bohdan’s grandmother Vlada. The family declined to provide their surnames out of concerns for their safety.
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/in-mykolaiv-russia-continues-pattern-of-shelling-hospitals/ar-AAVQ8pX
Cluster bombing hospitals. Crimes against humanity.
The UK did not ban Fox News
At the time, a spokesperson for Fox News told multiple news outlets that that voluntary decision was made for commercial reasons and because “it averages only a few thousand viewers across the day in the U.K.”
In other words, neither Ofcom nor any other U.K. authority “banned” Fox News — the company made the decision to withdraw from the U.K. in 2017 because not enough people were watching.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/england-banned-fox-news/
In August 2020, Fox News launched an internet streaming service to the UK (and elsewhere) called Fox News International.
Russia's Defense Ministry: "Not a single" civilian had been injured in Bucha
while the town was under Russian control.'
It said pictures and video footage from the area were “staged by the Ukrainian government.”
Russia’s Defense Ministry on Sunday rejected all accusations that its troops had committed atrocities in Bucha, saying that “not a single” civilian had been injured while the town was under Russian control. It said pictures and video footage from the area were “staged by the Ukrainian government.”
“This is another provocation,” the ministry said in a statement, questioning why people’s corpses in the pictures “have not become numb after at least four days, have no characteristic spots, and have uncoagulated blood in their wounds.”
The ministry did not provide any proof to support its claims.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/04/03/world/ukraine-russia-war
NYT: Russia has given up on taking Kyiv (map)
Map of towns where Ukrainian forces have recently reclaimed control around Kyiv
Maps: Tracking the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Videos posted to social media appeared to show abandoned streets in the suburb of Bucha, which had been one of the most contested areas around the capital. And satellite imagery of a key airport in Hostomel by Maxar Technologies, a U.S.-based imaging company, appeared to show that Russian equipment had been removed sometime in the last 10 days.
But the wide range of Ukrainian claims made on Friday were impossible to independently verify.
Even as Ukrainian counterattacks have pushed Russian forces north, fighting has continued in areas west of Kyiv in recent days. Russia has also been conducting air and missile strikes on Kyiv and Chernihiv, according to Britain’s Defense Ministry.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/world/europe/ukraine-maps.html
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