FOG BLOG WORLD NEWS LOG: RUSSIANS BOMB A CHILDREN'S AND MATERNITY HOSPITAL IN UKRAINE!

Russia's bombing of maternity and children's hospital an 'atrocity,' Zelensky says...Russian forces bombed a maternity and children's hospital in southern Ukraine, authorities there said Wednesday, an attack described by the country's President Volodymyr Zelensky as an "atrocity."

The attack came despite Russia agreeing to a 12-hour pause in hostilities to allow refugees to evacuate a number of towns and cities.

Mariupol city council posted a video of the devastated hospital in the city and accused Russian forces of dropping several bombs on it from the air.

"The destruction is enormous," said the council. "The building of the medical facility where the children were treated recently is completely destroyed."

Police in the Donetsk region said that according to preliminary information at least 17 people were injured, including mothers and staff, as a result of the attack.

Zelensky repeated his call for the NATO military alliance to declare a no-fly zone over Ukraine, as he expressed his outrage at the attack. "Direct strike of Russian troops at the maternity hospital," he said on Telegram. "People, children are under the wreckage. Atrocity! How much longer will the world be an accomplice ignoring terror? "Close the sky right now! Stop the killings! You have power but you seem to be losing humanity."