President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said early this morning that the siege of Mariupol will go down in history as a war crime of Russian troops, reports AP.
“What the occupiers have done to this peaceful city is a horror that will be remembered for centuries to come,” he said in a video address to the nation.
Russian troops are advancing further into the besieged, ruined city, where a large metallurgical plant has shut down due to fighting, and local authorities are begging the West for help.
The fall of Mariupol, Ukraine’s worst-hit city, would be a major military victory for the invaders, the agency said.
In the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, at least 20 children born to surrogate mothers are in temporary bomb shelters, waiting for their parents to arrive at the combat zone to pick them up.
Infants, some a few days old, are under the supervision of nurses who are unable to leave the shelter due to constant Russian shelling.