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Abigail O'Leary

Mum and baby die after being pulled from rubble of Ukraine hospital bombing

A mother and and baby have both died after being pulled from rubble of Ukraine hospital bombing.

A photo of the mum lying stricken on a stretcher while being taken away from the scene of the shelling shocked the world.

It comes after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy accused Russia of carrying out genocide after Ukrainian officials said Russian aircraft bombed the children's hospital in Mariupol last Wednesday.

Pregnant women and children were trapped under the wreckage with rescuers carrying out desperate searches for days

Tragically, a mum to be was pulled from the debris a number of days later but did not survive.

Debris is seen on site of the destroyed Mariupol children's hospital (via REUTERS)

Ukraine officials have said that at least 17 people have been injured by the shelling that saw heavily pregnant women among the people brought out of the destroyed hospital on stretchers.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson condemned the attack as “depraved”.

He said: “There are few things more depraved than targeting the vulnerable and defenceless.”

The White House also said the hospital bombing was a "barbaric use of military force to go after innocent civilians".

A mum to be is pictured walking through the aftermath of the hospital (A mum to be is pictured walking through the aftermath of the hospital)
An emergency service worker stands at the bottom of a bomb crater at the Mariupol hospital site (REUTERS)

Russian officials had earlier pledged to halt firing so at least some trapped civilians could escape the port city, where hundreds of thousands have been sheltering without water or power for more than a week.

Both sides blamed the other for the failure of the evacuation.

"What kind of country is this, the Russian Federation, which is afraid of hospitals, is afraid of maternity hospitals, and destroys them?" Zelenskiy said in a televised address late on Wednesday.

Aftermath of the bombing at the hospital (EyePress News/REX/Shutterstock)

The bombing of the children's hospital, he said, was "proof that a genocide of Ukrainians is taking place".

Ukraine's foreign ministry posted video footage of what it said was the hospital showing holes where windows should have been in a three-storey building. Huge piles of smouldering rubble littered the scene.

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