since its invasion of ukraine. and with each hit, a new justification. for mariupol, russia set the stage days before the attack happened. armed forces of ukraine have set up a fire position there. translator: expelled the staff and patients from a maternity hospital and equipped combat positions in it. reporter: cnn has found zero evidence such military positions were present at mariupol s maternity and children s hospital on the afternoon of march 9th and it was civilians that emerged from the building. pregnant women injured and distressed. city officials say 17 people, including children, women, and doctors were injured. since then, at least five people have died. cnn built a model that revealed many signs that civilians were still using this hospital and, therefore, it was not a justifiable military target. this satellite image taken just hours before the attack shows cars parked outside.
cnn built a model that revealed many signs that civilians were still using this hospital and therefore it was not a justifiable military target. this satellite image taken just hours before the attack shows cars parked outside. this is the crater left behind. war crime investigators investigators told it is consistent with 500 kilogram dropped from an aircraft. meters away, the sign reads children s diagnostic unit. according to the hospital website, it houses children with immune diseases, among other illnesses. over here is where people began emerging after the strike. women, heavily pregnant, carried in arms draped over the shoulders of others, helping them to get out of the chaos. and here firemen can be seen running inside, assisting people to escape. the internal devastation is
from the maternity hospital. reporter: there was zero evidence any soldiers were at the hospital. instead it was pregnant women injured and distressed. 17 people including children, women, doctors were injured. since then at least five people have died. cnn built a model that revealed civilians were using the hospital and therefore it was not a justifiable military target. this satellite image hours before the attack shows cars parked outside. this is the crater left behind. war crime investigators truth hounds say it is consistent with a 500 kilogram high explosive bomb. just miles away this reads children s diagnostic unit.
and with each hit, a new justification. from mariupol, russia set the stage days before the attack happened. armed forces of ukraine have set up a fire position there. expelled the staff and patients from the maternity hospital and equipped combat positions in it. reporter: cnn has found zero evidence such military positions were present at mariupol s maternity and children s hospital on the afternoon of march 9th, and it was civilians that emerged from the buildings. pregnant women, injured and distressed. city officials say 17 people, including children, women, and doctors were injured. since then, at least five people have died. cnn built a model that revealed many signs that civilians were still using this hospital and, therefore, it was not a justifiable military target. this satellite image taken just hours before the attack shows cars parked outside. this is the crater left behind. war crime investigator truth
jeff paul live for us in western ukraine. yes, harris, the numbers from the u.n. are staggering and they re growing by the day. they say about 10 million people have been forced to abandon their homes where they are moving to western cities for safety. another three and a half billion have left this country altogether. we are joe buck about 2 million of the numbers crossing over into poland. a huge factor driving this humanitarian crisis is russia continues to target more civilian areas. as we saw last night, a shopping center. ukrainian officials say at least eight people were killed after russian forces launched a rocket into a mall in kyiv. the blast was so intense a destroyed cars parked outside. one resident who live nearby side it s difficult to put into words all of the destruction.