Russia-Ukraine LIVE updates amid anger at Mariupol hospital bombing and children killed in house blast

The world continues to reel after Russia's shocking attack on a hospital for children and women in Ukraine yesterday.

Mariupol's city council announced that the hospital had been destroyed by bombing yesterday afternoon, in an attack president Volodymyr Zelensky has labelled an 'atrocity'.

He said on Telegram: "People, children are under the wreckage. Atrocity! How much longer will the world be an accomplice ignoring terror?"

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But Russia has labelled the bombing 'fake news', claiming instead that Ukrainian troops are using the hospital to fire weapons from - despite images of injured women being taken from the scene yesterday.

It comes as four people, including two children, have reportedly been killed in a blast on a house in Kharkiv - while a five-year-old girl has been left seriously injured, the Ukraine state emergency services says.

The foreign ministers of Ukraine and Russia are in Turkey today (March 10) to meet for peace talks.

The UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD) says Russia continues to make slow progress in its invasion and is suffering heavy losses, with Putin now starting to rely on conscript troops.

A spokesperson for the MoD said: "The large Russian column north west of Kyiv has made little progress in over a week and is suffering continued losses at the hands of the Ukrainian armed forces.

"There has been a notable decrease in overall Russian air activity over Ukraine in recent days, likely due to the unexpected effectiveness and endurance of Ukrainian Air Defence forces.

"Russia has deployed conscript troops to Ukraine despite previous public assurances from President