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The Mariupol maternity hospital was occupied by Ukrainian fighters and empty of patients when it was struck on 9 March 2022.

Unresolvable Claimed by Government of Russia on 10 March 2022.

The statement

Speaking in Antalya, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the Mariupol maternity hospital had long been seized by the Azov battalion and other radicals and that mothers and staff had been moved out before the strike.

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Origin of the claim Ukrinform Media · Government of Ukraine origin: Sergei Lavrov remarks in Antalya, 10 Mar · published 2022-03-10 00:00 UTC
Contradicts NPR Media · Unaffiliated origin: AP journalists Mstyslav Chernov and Evgeniy Maloletka at the scene · published 2022-03-09 00:00 UTC

Verdict history

When	From	To	Why
2026-10-30 18:00 UTC	Open	Unresolvable	Open 12 months after it was said (2022-03-10) with nothing in the record to settle it. In ev-20261027-t7n6, AP journalists at the scene, carried by NPR and Al Jazeera, documented wounded pregnant women being carried out of the hospital, which runs against the claim, but that is one origin; a WHO record of a 9 March Mariupol attack affecting patients (ev-20261028-xfcn) does not name the facility, so the record does not yet meet the two-origin rule.

Cite or reuse

The War Record, claim cl-20261027-vfa0, revision 2, https://thewarrecord.com/claims/cl-20261027-vfa0/

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