A two-day-old baby died in a Russian strike on a maternity hospital in Vilnyansk in southeastern Ukraine on Wednesday, as Moscow ramped up attacks on civilian infrastructure nationwide.
on a maternity and children's hospital in the southern city of Mariupol in March, as part of Russia's wider campaign targeting health care facilities across Ukraine.
About one in five people in Ukraine has difficulty accessing medicine, Dr. Jarno Habicht, the World Health Organization's representative in Ukraine,. The problem is worse in Ukrainian regions occupied by Russia, with one in three people there unable to get the medicine they need, Habicht added. The attack on Wednesday killed at least three people, including a 17-year-old girl, and injured at least 11 others, as local authorities laterUkraine's state energy operator, Ukrenergo, said the strike in Kyiv contributed to power outagesof the country on Wednesday afternoon, as recent Russian strikes targeting critical infrastructure wiped out much of the nation's power supply.
"That would be if there were widespread power cuts and the temperatures were even colder," he said in an interview published Tuesday.The Kremlin has been accused of deliberately targeting Ukraine's civilian power grid in an effort to leave the civilian population without electricity and heat -- an act that would amount to a war crime. A senior U.S.
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