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David Kent

Children's hospital one of two hit by further airstrikes from Russia just hours after disgraceful attack on maternity centre

Two more hospitals have been damaged in Russian airstrikes on the Ukrainian city of Zhytomyr, their mayor has said.

Mayor Serhii Sukhomlyn claimed that one of them was a children's hospital and no one was wounded.

The strikes come after a maternity hospital was blown up in Mariupol by a Russian airstrike on Wednesday.

At least 17 people were injured in the blast, with the children's ward completely destroyed as a result.

The victims evacuated included a heavily pregnant, bleeding woman on a stretcher.

The city council in Mariupol said the hospital was hit several times during a supposed ceasefire, called to enable some of the hundreds of thousands of the city’s trapped civilians to flee.

The Ukrainian government has claimed that at least 1,170 civilians have been killed in the city since the invasion began.

A Kremlin spokesman told Sky News: "Russian forces do not fire on civilian targets" and blamed Ukraine for the failure of a planned evacuation from Mariupol.

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