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Evening Standard Comment: Vladimir Putin’s barbarism calls for shift in tactics

Last night, Vladimir Putin bombed a maternity hospital. A six-year-old is among three of the dead. At least 17 more, including doctors and pregnant women, were injured in the explosion in Mariupol.

The Ministry of Defence says Russia has also confirmed the use of thermobaric weapons whose destructive force is akin to generating flammable particles which kill you from the inside. And the Kremlin is now rolling the pitch for the use of chemical weapons with further “false flag” disinformation campaigns.

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