Russian airstrikes destroy maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine says

WOMEN and children are feared dead after a Russian airstrike destroyed a maternity hospital in the besieged city of Mariupol, Ukraine has claimed.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed children were left buried under the rubble after the strike on Wednesday afternoon and branded the attack an "atrocity".

Horror footage showed the charred remains of the hospital with wounded staff and patients being rushed out of the building into a devastating scene of burning cars and smouldering rubble.