The first footage of a maternity hospital in Donetsk shelled by Ukrainian militantsDONETSK, June 14Five medical facilities, including a maternity hospital and two central city hospitals, were damaged as a result of Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk, the Ministry of Health of the Donetsk People's Republic said on Tuesday. (Artema Street, 185), Center for Primary Health Care No. 7 (Tsimlyanskaya, 9a and Antarktidnaya, 1a), Center for Primary Health Care No. 8 (Tumanyan, 18), Central City Clinical Hospital No. 1 (Roza Luxembourg, 46 , 50, 52g), Donetsk Republican Center for the Protection of Motherhood and Childhood (Panfilova Avenue, 3),» the ministry's Telegram channel says. >Two gymnasiums, a school and a nursery-kindergarten were damaged as a result of the shelling of Donetsk VSUV in most hospitals the windows were broken, and in the Republican Center for Maternal and Childhood Protection the roof and doors were also broken. the shell hit the roof of the building, women in labor were evacuated to the basement. Thanks to the prompt actions of the staff, casualties were avoided. The official representative of the UN Secretary General, Stephane Dujarric, later told reporters that the Organization considers the shelling of a maternity hospital in Donetsk as a violation of international law. And Russia's Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyansky, in turn, was outraged by the lack of reaction of the Western media to this shelling — “all those BBC, Reuters, France Presse and so on, who were screaming about the damage done to the maternity hospital in Mariupol.” On Monday, Donetsk came under the heaviest shelling since 2015. Ukraine shelled almost all districts of the city, primarily Proletarsky, Kuibyshevsky, Petrovsky and Kyiv. In this regard, the head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, said in an official appeal that the republic is requesting «additional allied forces» from Russia.
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