Ukraine: 'Children are under the wreckage' - Russian airstrike destroys Mariupol hospital

Reacting to news of the attack on the hospital, Taoiseach Micheál Martin said Russia's 'war on civilians must end'

Ukrainian emergency employees and volunteers carry an injured pregnant woman from the damaged by shelling maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, . A Russian attack has severely damaged a maternity hospital in the besieged port city of Mariupol. Picture: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP/Shutterstock

A Russian airstrike has destroyed a children's and maternity hospital in the besieged city of Mariupol in southern Ukraine.

The ground shook more than a mile away when a series of blasts slammed into the Mariupol complex, blowing out windows and ripping away much of the front of one building.