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Russia air strike hits Ukraine maternity hospital

A maternity and children's hospital in the city of Mariupol has been hit by a Russian air strike, Ukraine says.

A maternity and children's hospital in the city of Mariupol has been hit by a Russian air strike, Ukraine says. President Volodymyr Zelensky said people were trapped under the wreckage, and called the attack a war crime.

Also in the programme, power has been cut off from the former nuclear power plant at Chernobyl and scientists have found The Endurance, the lost ship of the Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, 107 years after it sank.

(Photo: A car burns after the destruction of Mariupol children's hospital as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 9, 2022 in this still image from a handout video obtained by Reuters. Ukraine Military/Handout via REUTERS)

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  • Wed 9 Mar 2022 20:06GMT

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