Live Updates on the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Live Updates on the Russia-Ukraine Conflict: The city council of Mariupol announced in an online post on Wednesday that Russian airstrikes had destroyed a children's hospital in the Ukrainian city.
"Several bombs have been dropped on the children's hospital by Russian invading forces.
"The devastation is massive," it added, adding that no casualty counts have yet been determined.
Reuters said it couldn't confirm the claim's veracity right away, while Russia denied targeting civilians in its attack on Ukraine.

"Mariupol," Ukraine President Zelinskyy tweeted in response to the bombings. Russian troops launched a direct attack on the maternity hospital.
People, including children, are trapped beneath the rubble. Atrocity! How much longer will the world be complicit in terror by ignoring it?

According to Reuters, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday that Russia will achieve its goal of ensuring Ukraine's neutral status and would prefer to do it through negotiations.
Moscow's goals do not include ousting the Kyiv administration, and it intends to make more meaningful progress with Ukraine in the next round of negotiations, according to Zakharova.
Meanwhile, Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister, Iryna Vereshchuk, said Russian armed troops have agreed to cease fire in humanitarian corridors on Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. local time (7 a.m. to 7 p.m. GMT).
A Russian military bombardment in the eastern Ukrainian town of Severodonestk killed at least ten people, according to news agency AFP, which cited a local official.