Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy has blasted the Russian airstrikes on a maternity hospital in Mariupol as "genocide".
In his nightly address to the Ukrainian public, the President urged the western world to intervene.
He said: "Everything that the occupiers are doing to Mariupol is beyond atrocities. Europeans! Ukrainians! Mariupol! Today we must be united in condemning this war crime of Russia, which reflects all the evil that the occupiers have brought to our land. All of the destroyed cities and everything they've done.
"An aerial bomb on a maternity hospital is the conclusive evidence that what is happening is a genocide of Ukrainians. Europeans! You won't be able to say that you didn't see what happened to Ukrainians in Mariupol.
"You saw. You know.
"Consequently, you must strengthen sanctions against Russia so that it never has the chance to continue this genocide. You need to pressure Russia so that it sits at the negotiating table and ends this barbarous war."
The city's deputy mayor has told the BBC that a six-year-old boy is the latest victim of the Mariupol attacks.
Since President Zelenskyy's words, two more hospitals have been hit by airstrikes.
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.
At least 17 people were injured in the blast in Mariupol, 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.
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