March 10, 2022

*) Kiev accuses Moscow of genocide after children's hospital bombed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused Russia of carrying out genocide after Ukrainian officials said Russian aircraft bombed a children's hospital in besieged city of Mariupol. The attack underscored US warnings that the biggest assault on a European state since 1945 could become increasingly attritional after Russia's early failures. The White House condemned the hospital bombing as a "barbaric use of military force to go after innocent civilians". *) WHO reports 18 attacks on health facilities since war began The World Health Organisation has documented 18 attacks on health facilities, workers and ambulances since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the UN agency delivered 81 metric tons of supplies to Ukraine and is now establishing a pipeline to send further equipment. Tedros said WHO had sent enough surgical supplies to treat 150 trauma patients and other supplies for a range of health conditions to treat 45,000 people. *) Top diplomats of Russia, Ukraine reach Türkiye for trilateral talks Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba have arrived in Antalya ahead of a tripartite meeting between top diplomats of Türkiye, Russia, and Ukraine. The meeting will take place at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum as part of Ankara's efforts to mediate between the warring countries. Kuleba expressed hope that his Russian counterpart Lavrov will approach talks in Türkiye on ending the two-week war in a sincere manner. *) Foreign policy neophyte Yoon wins South Korea's presidency The opposition conservative Yoon Suk-yeol has won South Korea's presidential election, propelling a political novice to the helm of Asia's fourth-largest economy. After a bitter, hard-fought election campaign, Yoon, formerly a top government prosecutor who has never held elected office, was declared winner. "This is a victory of the great South Korean pe