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