Mum and baby die after being pulled from rubble of Ukraine hospital bombing

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Ukraine hospital shelled by Vladimir Putin's Russia. A shocking photo captured the moment the pair were heartbreakingly pulled from the debris and carried on a stretcher.The abhorrent scene shows just a couple of the mothers and their infants who were inside the children's hospital in Mariupol when it was bombed last Wednesday.According to officials in Ukraine, the attack on the hospital left at least 17 people injured, many of whom were pregnant women evacuated from the building on stretchers.Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson blasted the attack, saying: "There are few things more depraved than targeting the vulnerable and defenceless."Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy described the shelling of a hospital by Russia as an act of genocide.Rescuers spent days digging through the rubble of the destroyed hospital to find survivors, following what America's White House called a "barbaric use of military force to go after innocent civilians".Russian officials had earlier pledged to halt firing so at least some trapped civilians could escape the port city, where hundreds of thousands have been sheltering without water or power for more than a week.Both sides blamed the other for the failure of the evacuation.For more shocking stories from the Daily Star, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters hereZelenskiy asked in a televised address late on Wednesday: "What kind of country is this, the Russian Federation, which is afraid of hospitals, is afraid of maternity hospitals, and destroys them?" The bombing of the children's hospital, he said, was "proof that a genocide of Ukrainians is taking place".Ukraine's foreign ministry posted video footage of what it said was the hospital showing holes where windows should.