Azov Regiment: Russian troops bomb field hospital on Azovstal plant; there are casualties

Thursday, 28 April 2022, 16:03

On the night of 27-28 April, Russian occupying troops bombed the military field hospital on the territory of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, leaving many dead and wounded.

Source: Azov Regiment on Telegram

According to Azov Regiment: "All night long the Russians dropped multi-ton bombs capable of breaking through any concrete structures onto the military field hospital on the territory of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol where wounded [Ukrainian] defenders are undergoing treatment. Later, after having already inflicted damage [on the building], they continued to ruthlessly shell the ruins with naval artillery.

Some of the previously wounded soldiers were killed, some were wounded again or concussed."

Details: The Azov Regiment said that the Russian attack had caused the part of the building where the operating room was located to collapse.

The Azov Regiment also recalled that the Geneva Convention guarantees the protection of stationary and mobile hospitals, which cannot be attacked [under the Convention]. The wounded and the sick should also enjoy protection regardless of whether they are civilian or military.

The Regiment also shared a video filmed immediately following the shelling.

It shows soldiers who had already been hospitalised with serious injuries, now dead, being dug out from the rubble, and first aid being given to those who were still alive.

Azov urged international human rights organisations to respond to Russia’s attempts to annihilate even those Ukrainian soldiers in Mariupol "who can no longer hold weapons in their hands".

Previously: The Azov Regiment said that the Russian occupiers had carried out around 50 airstrikes on Mariupol on the night of 28 April and dropped large numbers of phosphorus bombs, and they called on the authorities to take drastic measures to break the siege of the city or to evacuate local people and defenders.

Background: 

• Mariupol has been besieged since 1 March. On 12 April some marines managed to break through from the Ilich plant to the Azov fighters at Azovstal, while others were taken prisoner.
• The Russian army has been targeting Azovstal with super-heavy bombs. On 19 April, Azov’s deputy commander Sviatoslav "Kalyna" Palamar said that Azovstal was almost completely destroyed and fighters were pulling people out from under the rubble.
• On 19 April the Russian Defence Ministry suggested for at least the third time that the Ukrainian defenders stationed at Azovstal should lay down their arms and surrender.
• Serhii "Volyna" Volynskyi, Commander of the 36th Separate Marine Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, called on foreign countries to urgently carry out an "extraction" from Mariupol – to evacuate several hundred soldiers and civilians out of Azovstal to a safe place to save them from the Russians.
• On 20 April it became known that servicemen of the 36th Separate Marine Brigade, together with other units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the National Guard, had successfully conducted a special operation to evacuate border guards and police officers to the Azovstal plant.
• On 25 April, the Defence Ministry’s main intelligence directorate said that Russia had not abandoned its plans to use chemical weapons against Ukrainian defenders and civilians on the territory of the Azovstal plant.
• President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the Ukrainian forces still lack the resources to conduct a military operation to break the siege of Mariupol.