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War Crimes Watch: Russia’s onslaught on Ukrainian hospitals

This photo provided by Maksim Beznosenko shows the aftermath of shelling on a cancer hospital in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, on March 11, 2022. (Courtesy Maksim Beznosenko via AP) This photo provided by Volodymyr Matsokin shows damage to the hospital in Izyum, Ukraine, on March 8, 2022. (Volodymyr Matsokin via AP) This photo provided by Yulia Ablamskaya shows the aftermath of shelling at the MediLand Medical Center in Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 16, 2022. Ablamskaya was one of 17 employees inside the facility when she says a loud “boom” rocked the building in the early morning hours of March 16. As the chaos unfolded, she hurried to get the three remaining patients at the center to a safer place. The patients, she said, are all awaiting operations and unable to travel. “We felt the walls of the building shivering,” Ablamskaya, an administrator at the clinic, recounted. “So, we of course jumped up and went to take the patients.” (Yulia Ablamskaya via AP) In this image from video provided by Dr. Vitalii Gyrin , staff and patients take shelter in a basement of the Adonis hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine, ahead of evacuation, as fighting broke out outside including airstrikes on Feb. 28, 2022. (Dr. Vitalii Gyrin via AP) FILE - A view onto the yard of a maternity hospital damaged in a shelling attack in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. Associated Press journalists, who have been reporting from inside blockaded Mariupol since early in the war, documented this attack on the hospital and saw the victims and damage firsthand. They shot video and photos of several bloodstained, pregnant mothers fleeing the blown-out maternity ward, medics shouting, children crying. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File) FILE - Ukrainian emergency workers and volunteers carry an injured pregnant woman outside a damaged maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. A Russian attack has severely damaged a maternity hospital in the besieged port city of Mariupol, Ukrainian officials say. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File) FILE - Ukrainian soldiers and emergency employees work outside a damaged maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. A Russian attack has severely damaged the hospital in the besieged port city of Mariupol, Ukrainian officials say. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File) FILE - A medical worker walks through the damaged maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. A Russian attack has severely damaged the hospital in the besieged port city of Mariupol, Ukrainian officials say. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File) FILE - Mariana Vishegirskaya stands outside a maternity hospital that was damaged by shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. Visheirskaya was taken to another nearby hospital where she gave birth the following day to a baby girl she named Veronika. “We were lying in wards when glass, frames, windows and walls flew apart,” she told AP, lying next to her newborn. "We don’t know how it happened. We were in our wards and some had time to cover themselves. Some didn’t.” (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov, File)