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The Investigative Committee opened a case on the hostage-taking in one of the maternity hospitals in Mariupol. And decided to make the victim a patient of another maternity hospital
The Russian Investigative Committee reported that it had opened a criminal case on charges of abducting two or more people from a maternity hospital in Mariupol.
According to investigators, Ukrainian soldiers “carried out targeted shelling of the maternity hospital building” and held “at least 100 civilians, including pregnant women and at least 40 children,” in its basement.
The Investigative Committee's report mentions the address of the maternity hospital where, according to investigators, the hostages were taken: 36 Pashkovskogo Street. According to open source data, this address is home to Women's Clinic No. 2. Earlier, the forces of the self-proclaimed DPR claimed that the Ukrainian military "laid siege" on Mariupol Maternity Hospital No. 2 and were not allowing "women to get water from the nearest well in the private sector of the city."
The Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, ordered that "a woman who was in a maternity hospital in Mariupol seized by Ukrainian soldiers" be brought in as a victim in the case. The agency's statement said that "in open sources, the woman reported that Ukrainian soldiers used the maternity hospital for their own purposes and also took food from women in labor." The investigation found that the women were "essentially held hostage."
The Investigative Committee did not specify the name of the woman who reported this. Judging by the context, it is about Marianna Vyshemirskaya , who said that she came under fire during an attack on the maternity ward of City Hospital No. 3 in Mariupol. This maternity ward, according to open sources , is located at 80 Mira Avenue.
Earlier, pro-Kremlin Telegram channels released a video interview with Vyshemirskaya (we retold it ). The woman said in the interview that one day, soldiers (she did not specify which ones) came to the maternity hospital and took away food, explaining that they had not eaten anything for five days. At the same time, Vyshemirskaya herself did not talk about hostage-taking.
- On March 9, the maternity ward of Hospital No. 3 in Mariupol came under fire. Initially, Ukrainian authorities reported three dead, including one child, and 17 injured. It was later reported that a pregnant woman injured in the shelling and her unborn child had died. Ukrainian authorities blamed Russian troops for the shelling.
- Russian state media and the Russian Defense Ministry insist that the reports of a strike on a hospital in Mariupol are “fake” and an “information provocation by the Kyiv regime.”