Russian Missiles Shot Ukraine's Collaborating Hospital, Governor Zaporizhia: A Newborn Baby Dies

JAKARTA - A newborn was killed when a Russian attack missile hit a maternity hospital in Ukraine's southeastern Villiansk City on Wednesday, Ukrainian officials said.

State emergency services said, at the time of the attack, a woman with a newborn and a doctor was in the maternity ward in the destroyed two-story building.

Doctors and mothers were rescued but the baby died, he said in the messaging app Telegram, under photos of rescue workers sorting through debris, with white smoke rising into the night sky.

Video footage posted by state emergency services showed a man apparently a doctor was given water as rescuers tried to clean up the surrounding debris.

"Sadness fulfills our hearts, a newborn has been killed," wrote Oleksandr Starukh, governor of the Zaporizhzhia region which includes Vilvansk, on Telegram.

Reuters could not immediately verify the report independently. Meanwhile, Russia did not immediately comment on the incident.

Separately, Andriy Yermak, head of Ukraine's presidential office, condemned the attack on a Telegram post.

Referring to Russian troops who invaded Ukraine in February as terrorists, he said Russia would be responsible for "every Ukrainian life".