Greece's prime minister mentioned on Friday that the nation was ready to assist Ukraine rebuild a maternity hospital in Mariupol that was bombed by Russian forces.

An airstrike on March 9 struck the maternity and kids's hospital offering refuge to adults and kids, leaving three lifeless and 17 wounded whereas inflicting world outrage. Overseas officers and media shortly condemned the assault.

Specialists instructed Newsweek in an earlier report that the bombing is a "horrific" instance of a possible battle crime dedicated by Vladimir Putin's forces, and it's one in all many who the Worldwide Legal Courtroom (ICC) has opened an investigation on since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of the Hellenic Republic tweeted on Friday that Greece "is able to rebuild the maternity hospital in Mariupol, the middle of the Greek minority in Ukraine, a metropolis pricey to our hearts and image of the barbarity of the battle."

Mariupol, together with a number of villages surrounding the town, is reportedly dwelling to 120,000 ethnic Greeks, in response to The Greek Metropolis Occasions.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky posted a video on Twitter after the assault to indicate the aftermath of the hospital, writing, "Mariupol. Direct strike of Russian troops on the maternity hospital," Zelensky tweeted. "Folks, kids are underneath the wreckage. Atrocity! How for much longer will the world be an confederate ignoring terror? Shut the sky proper now! Cease the killings! You might have energy however you appear to be shedding humanity."

Viral pictures of the assault on the hospital confirmed a bloodied pregnant girl being carried by means of a courtyard by emergency responders.

Russian officers have expressed that the hospital had been a base for radical fighters, and that the statements describing the lifeless and wounded civilians are "pathetic shrieks" from Russia's enemies. Officers added that the hospital was focused as a result of far-right radicals had taken it over, in response to the Related Press.

Ukraine and Greece have had long-standing diplomatic relations, and Zelensky tweeted on Monday that he and Prime Minister Mitsotakis had met and "Reported on the course of countering Russian aggression," he wrote.

Zelensky said, "We respect protection, humanitarian help" from Greece, and that Mitsotakis "Confused the necessity to make sure the work of humanitarian corridors, particularly in Mariupol."

Greece shouldn't be the one nation coming to Mariupol's help, as Italy on Thursday mentioned that the federal government was ready to spend money on the assets as a way to assist Ukraine rebuild a theater within the metropolis that was sheltering civilians when it was bombed on Wednesday.

The theater is believed to have been internet hosting as many as 1,200 civilians searching for refuge on the time of the bombing, and a rescue mission was launched on Thursday as lots of have been believed to have been alive beneath the rubble.

"There's something that appears notably egregious and notably horrific about assaults on amenities which might be designed to take care of essentially the most susceptible individuals in society," Anthony Dworkin, a senior coverage fellow on the European Council on Overseas Relations, instructed Newsweek in a earlier report.

Newsweek reached out to Ukraine's and Russia's Ministry of Overseas Affairs for remark.

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Greece has said they're ready to assist Ukraine rebuild the maternity hospital in Mariupol that was bombed by Russian forces on March 9. Above is a photograph taken on March 7, 2022 exhibits destruction following shelling in Ukraine's second-biggest metropolis of Kharkiv.SERGEY BOBOK/AFP by way of Getty Photos