Russian forces have taken at least 400 people hostage at a hospital in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol, according to regional leader Pavlo Kyrylenko. In a statement on the messaging app Telegram, Kyrylenko said about 400 people were driven to the Regional Intensive Care Hospital in Mariupol from neighboring houses. Kyrylenko quoted a hospital employee who said it is “impossible to get out of the hospital.” “They are shooting hard, we are sitting in the basement,” the hospital worker told Kyrylenko. “Cars have not been able to drive to the hospital for two days. High-rise buildings are burning around us.” “We can’t leave,” the employee reportedly told the leader. Kyrylenko said the hospital was “practically destroyed” by Russian troops several days earlier, but that workers and patients continued to stay in the basement where the patients continued to be treated. “The floor slabs fell in the main building from …