Russia has branded the Ukrainian claims that it carried out the horrific bombing of a children's hospital in Mariupol as "fake news" saying the building was no longer a maternity hospital and that it had long been taken over by troops.
"That's how fake news is born," Dmitry Polyanskiy, Russia's first deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, said on Twitter.
Polyanskiy said Russia had warned on March 7 that the hospital had been turned into a military object from which Ukrainians were firing.
