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Russia rejects war crime, genocide claims following Mariupol hospital attack

A woman walks outside the damaged by shelling maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. AP - Evgeniy Maloletka

Ukraine has accused Russia of "genocide" by bombing a children's hospital in the city of Mariupol, which Moscow has rejected as "fake news" claiming the building was a former maternity hospital that had been taken over by troops previously.

Russia's war in Ukraine entered its third week this Thursday with none of Moscow's stated objectives having been reached despite thousands of people killed, more than two million displaced, and thousands more forced to find shelter in besieged cities under relentless Russian bombardment.

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