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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Liam James

Twitter and Facebook remove Russian embassy posts claiming Mariupol hospital bombing was faked

AP

Twitter and Facebook removed posts from Russia’s UK Embassy that claimed the bombing of a children's hospital in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol was faked.

One of the removed tweets quoted unfounded claims from Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov that the hospital was “non-operational” and being used by Ukrainian armed forces and “radicals”.

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