6-Year-Old Ukrainian Girl Dies After Russian Shelling: 'Show This To Putin'

A 6-year-old girl in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol died Sunday after she was wounded from alleged Russian artillery attacks.

The child, whose name was not disclosed, was at a supermarket on the outskirts of the southeastern port city when Russian forces started shelling, the Associated Press reported.

She was taken to the hospital, where she was placed onto a gurney and wheeled inside of the medical facility.

The staff gave the wounded child an injection and attempted to revive her with a defibrillator, but she could not be saved.

"Show this to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin. The eyes of this child, and crying doctors," a doctor in blue medical scrubs, who was pumping oxygen into the now-deceased girl, told an AP video journalist present at the scene.

At least 352 Ukrainian civilians, including 14 children, have died as a result of Russia's ongoing invasion, according to the latest data provided by Ukraine's Ministry of Internal Affairs. It was unclear if the 6-year-old girl from Mariupol was among the reported deceased children.

Another 1,684 Ukrainian civilians, including 116 children, had been wounded in the conflict, according to officials.

Russia launched its multi-pronged assault on Ukraine Thursday with the supposed aim of demilitarizing its western neighbor.

Russia claimed that its troops were targeting only Ukrainian military facilities and that Ukraine's civilian population was not in danger.

However, Russian forces have reportedly attacked the densely populated cities of Kyiv, Ukraine's capital, and Kharkiv. Russia has also attacked civilian facilities such as oil depots and airports, reports said.

At least 11 people died in Kharkiv after Russian artillery bombarded residential districts of the city, despite no Ukrainian army positions or strategic infrastructure being present in the areas, regional administration chief Oleg Synegubov was cited as saying by Al Jazeera Monday.

The weapons used in the Kharkiv attacks were allegedly Russian 122-millimeter (4.8-inch) "Grad" rockets, which share their name with the BM-21 "Grad" wheeled multiple rocket launcher system that carried and fired the projectiles.

Ukraine has since filed a suit against Russia at the highest United Nations court in The Hague for disputes between states. It alleged that Russia's claim it invaded Ukraine to prevent a genocide was false and asked judges to order "provisional measures" to protect Ukraine.

"Russia must be held accountable for manipulating the notion of genocide to justify aggression," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a statement Sunday.

Zelensky also said that Russia's unprovoked attacks "show signs of genocide," Axios reported.

The International Criminal Court, for its part, said Monday it will open an investigation into whether Russia committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine, NBC News reported.