On Thursday, Twitter removed two tweets from Russia's embassy in the United Kingdom for what the social media company termed "the denial of violent events" during Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

In one of those tweets, Russia's embassy claimed that a pregnant woman shown in a photo of casualties at a children's hospital in the besieged port city of Mariupol that was damaged by a Russian bomb on Wednesday was a Ukrainian "beauty blogger," and that the photo was fabricated propaganda.

That tweet included two separate images of women who, according to the embassy, are the same person. Another message addressing the claim remained live Thursday, despite Twitter's removal of two other tweets. The link to that tweet later stated, "This tweet violates the Twitter Rules."

According to Ukrainian officials, at least one child and two adults were murdered in the hospital, while another 17 were injured. "Children are under the wreckage," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated in a tweet that included a video of the hospital's destruction.

Russian authorities began restricting Twitter and blocking Facebook earlier this week, following the signing of a bill by President Vladimir Putin that criminalises the intentional propagation of what Moscow sees as "false" news concerning the Ukraine invasion.