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Doctors, crater disprove Ukraine hospital airstrike misinfo

FILE - Debris covers the yard of a maternity hospital damaged in a shelling attack in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. Accounts by three doctors at a Ukrainian maternity hospita hit by an airstrike and an analysis of the crater disprove Russian misinformation about the March 9 attack that killed a pregnant woman and her unborn child. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File) FILE - A man carries his child away from a damaged maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 9, 2022. An Associated Press team of journalists was in Mariupol the day of the airstrike and raced to the scene. Their images prompted a massive Russian misinformation campaign that continues to this day. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File) FILE - Ukrainian emergency employees and volunteers carry an injured pregnant woman from a maternity hospital damaged by shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 9, 2022. The baby was born dead. Half an hour later, the mother died too. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File) Sergei Chernobrivets, a paramedic, poses for a photo on March 23, 2022, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. Chernobrivets, who was on the scene March 9 after the Russian airstrike on a maternity hospital, described the injuries to multiple women. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) Lyudmila Mykhailenko, the Mariupol maternity hospital's acting director, speaks to The Associated Press during an interview in Lviv, western Ukraine on Wednesday, March 23, 2022. Accounts by three doctors, including Mykhailenko, at a Ukrainian maternity hospital hit by an airstrike and an analysis of the crater disprove Russian misinformation about the March 9 attack that killed a pregnant woman and her unborn child. "With just one blow, there was simply nothing, no children's clinic, it was simply blown away," Mykhailenko said. (AP Photo/Renata Brito) FILE - Smoke rises after shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 9, 2022. An Associated Press team of journalists was in Mariupol the day of the airstrike and raced to the scene. Their images prompted a massive Russian misinformation campaign that continues to this day. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File) FILE - A woman walks outside a maternity hospital that was damaged by shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 9, 2022. An Associated Press team of journalists was in Mariupol the day of the airstrike and raced to the scene. Their images prompted a massive Russian misinformation campaign that continues to this day. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File) FILE - Mariana Vishegirskaya, an injured pregnant woman walks downstairs in a maternity hospital damaged by shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. An Associated Press team of journalists was in Mariupol the day of the airstrike and raced to the scene. Their images prompted a massive Russian misinformation campaign that continues to this day. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File) FILE - Ukrainian soldiers and emergency employees work outside a maternity hospital damaged by shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. An Associated Press team of journalists was in Mariupol the day of the airstrike and raced to the scene. Their images prompted a massive Russian misinformation campaign that continues to this day. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
Doctors, crater disprove Ukraine hospital airstrike misinfo