The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Igor Konashenkov, stated that the “airstrike” on the maternity hospital No. 3 in Mariupol and the published photo material with the woman in labor turned out to be a poorly orchestrated information provocation by the Kiev regime, for maintaining anti-Russian sentiment among Western audiences.
Recall that the Mariupol hospital No. 3 stopped its full-time work at the end of February. Staff and patients were dispersed by the Ukrainian nationalists. The building was converted into a stronghold of the Ukrainian national battalion “Azov”.