Accused of Hospital Strike 'War Crime,' Russia Rejects 'Pathetic Outcries'
MARIUPOL (CBS News) -- Britain on Thursday accused Russia of a "war crime" for an attack the previous day on a children's and maternity hospital in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol.
Ukrainian officials have said that at least three people, including a young girl, were killed in the strike, which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky labelled an "atrocity" soon after it happened.
U.K. armed forces minister James Heappey said Thursday that regardless of whether it was "indiscriminate" fire by Russia into a built-up area or a deliberate targeting of a health facility, "it is a war crime."
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, speaking alongside Poland's president Thursday in Warsaw, noted the attack on the hospital and said the world was witnessing "atrocities of unimaginable proportions in Ukraine."