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Which doesn't add up either. It's Ukraine's largest children hospital.

Meanwhile there is a sprawling military plant Artem nearby, which has been a target of multiple Russian missile strikes.

The Russian MoD said the hospital was hit by a malfunctioning Ukrainian anti-missile, but if you don't believe that, what do you think is more likely: that the military plant was the target and a Russian missile missed it, hitting a corner of the hospital building instead, or that the hospital was the target, but the missile failed in its attempt to kill scores of children being treated for cancer, which would be one of the most heinous war crimes imaginable?

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I literally don't understand what point you're trying to make - even if Russia only accidentally hit a children's hospital.......they are still the ones firing the missiles. They are still killing children. They are still kidnapping and moving them to Russia. They are still killing their parents in a war that they started. The "legality" of their strikes on civilian infrastructure is an idiotic thing to discuss when they shouldn't be doing any strikes in the first place.

My point is that saying that Russia deliberately target hospitals is a lie.

>The "legality" of their strikes on civilian infrastructure is an idiotic thing to discuss when they shouldn't be doing any strikes in the first place.

And yet people are busy spreading atrocity propaganda. Why is that?

Going to trot out the "Those are actors" lie too?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cHGbQfsJOl8

Russian representative at UN SC two days before that mentioned in his statement that Ukrainian military forced inhabitants out of a different maternity ward in Mariupol and made fire points there. [0]

Now look at the woman at 1:10 in your video. Here is a BBC's interview with her[1]:

"But Marianna told me there were no Ukrainian military stationed in the building where she was. She says she saw Ukrainian soldiers in the oncology unit in the building opposite the maternity unit."

My take is that at worst it was a strike made by mistake by people who were unaware that the hospital wasn't evacuated.

[0] https://russiaun.ru/ru/news/070322n

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-61412773

My take is that at worst it was a strike made by mistake by people who were unaware that the hospital wasn't evacuated.

A highly unlikely premise.

So then if Ukraine strikes Russian maternity hospitals or other civilian assets it would plausibly be because there were Russian soldiers stationed there?

Are there Amnesty's reports or at least eyewitness accounts of Russians stationing healthy soldiers at hospitals?

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