President Zelensky, speaking Russian rather than Ukrainian for part of his latest video address, said the attack was a war crime. “What kind of a country is Russia, that it is afraid of hospitals and maternity wards and destroys them?” he asked. On Thursday the Kremlin said it would seek information from the Russian military about what had happened. The White House condemned the “barbaric” use of force against innocent civilians, and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted that “there are few things more depraved than targeting the vulnerable and defenceless”.
