English 9 Week 3&4: Performance task

Lyka Angelyn Prado Mostar 9- Yakal

Fake News:
Russia's war in Ukraine entered its third week on Thursday with
none of its key objectives reached despite thousands of people
killed, more than two million made refugees, and thousands
forced to cower in besieged cities under relentless bombardment.
Ukrainian forces including citizen-soldiers who only last month
never dreamed of firing a weapon in anger were holding out in
Kyiv and other frontlines, while Russian troops, tanks and
artillery made slow progress from the north, south and east.
Moscow's stated objectives of crushing the Ukrainian military and
ousting the pro-Western elected government of President
Volodymyr Zelenskiy remained out of reach, with Zelenskiy
unshaken and lethal Western military aid pouring across the
Polish and Romanian borders.
Western-led sanctions designed to cut the Russian economy and
government from international financial markets were beginning
to bite, with the Russian sharemarket and rouble plunging and
ordinary Russians rushing to hoard cash.
Zelenskiy accused Russia of carrying out genocide after Ukrainian
officials said Russian aircraft bombed a children's hospital on
Wednesday, burying patients in rubble despite a ceasefire deal for
people to flee the besieged city of Mariupol.
The attack, which authorities said injured women in labour and
left children in the wreckage, 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".
Russian had earlier pledged to halt firing so at least some trapped
civilians could escape the port city, where hundreds of thousands
have been sheltering without water or power for more than a
week. Both sides blamed the other for the failure of the
evacuation. "What kind of country is this, the Russian Federation,
which is afraid of hospitals, is afraid of maternity hospitals, and
destroys them?" Zelenskiy said in a televised address late on
Wednesday.
Zelenskiy repeated his call for the West to tighten sanctions on
Russia "so that they sit down at the negotiating table and end this
brutal war". The bombing of the children's hospital, he said, was
"proof that a genocide of Ukrainians is taking place". The Donetsk
region's governor said 17 people were wounded in the attack.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, asked by Reuters for
comment, said: "Russian forces do not fire on civilian targets."
Russia calls its incursion a "special operation" to disarm its
neighbour and dislodge leaders it calls "neo-Nazis."
Ukraine's foreign ministry posted video footage of what it said was
the hospital showing holes where windows should have been in a
three-storey building. Huge piles of smouldering rubble littered
the scene.
The UN Human ights body said it was verifying the number of
casualties at Mariupol. The incident "adds to our deep concerns
about indiscriminate use of weapons in populated areas," it added
through a spokesperson.
Among more than 2 million total refugees from Ukraine, the
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Wednesday
that more than 1 million children have fled the country since the
invasion started on Feb 24. At least 37 had been killed and 50
injured, it said. The International Committee of the Red Cross
said houses had been destroyed all across Ukraine. "Hundreds of
thousands of people have no food, no water, no heat, no electricity
and no medical care," it said.
Zelenskiy told VICE in an interview on Wednesday that he was
confident Putin would at some stage agree to talks. "I think he
will. I think he sees that we are strong. He will. We need some
time," he said.
news article is from NDTV
Explanation:
Russia said on Thursday a Ukrainian claim that it bombed a
children's hospital in Mariupol was "fake news" because the
building was a former maternity hospital that had long been taken
over by troops.