Russia’s relentless destruction of Ukraine continued this week. According to Ukrainian officials, Russian airstrikes in the town of Mariupol hit a maternity hospital on Thursday where civilians were killed and more than a dozen were wounded.


Mariia Sirychenko is originally from Mariupol but was living in Kyiv and working for a tech company at the start of the Russian invasion. She joined The Takeaway to detail her experience leaving Kyiv for the city of Lviv after the war began.