3 dead, 17 wounded in airstrike on Mariupol hospital, Zelenskyy says
At least three people, including a child, were killed by a Russian airstrike on a children's hospital and maternity ward in the southeastern port city of Mariupol on Wednesday, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Another 17 people, including children, women and health workers, were wounded, Zelenskyy said.
The Ukrainian leader accused Russian state media of lying about the lack of patients inside the hospital at the time of the attack.
"War crimes are impossible without propaganda that covers them," Zelenskyy said in a televised address Thursday. "You will bear responsibility as well as those who give orders to throw bombs on peaceful people."
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According to Zelenskyy, 60,000 people managed to evacuate from some areas of Ukraine on Wednesday but Russian forces continue to block Mariupol as well as the small city of Volnovakha.
"Russian troops have already caused a humanitarian catastrophe in Ukraine. But it's just a part of their plan," he said.
Zelenskyy vowed to "rebuild everything" that was destroyed once the war has ended.
"I promise it personally," he added.
European Union leaders are expected to meet in the coming days to discuss Ukraine's application to join the bloc.
"We are waiting for the concrete signal, we are waiting for powerful support because this will be fair, this will be real, this will be human, this will be European," Zelenskyy said. "We know for sure who takes which position in the EU. We know who stands for us and who thinks that the EU is just an accounting department that counts profits, spending and no more."
-ABC News' Yulia Drozd