A children's hospital in Kyiv has been hit after Russian forces launched missile strikes against cities across Ukraine. Two people died when Ukraine's biggest paediatric hospital suffered major damage.
Rescuers clean up the rubble and search for victims at Ukraine's main children's hospital that suffered major damage after Russian forces targeted five Ukrainian cities with more than 40 missiles.A children's hospital in Kyiv has been hit after Russian forces launched missile strikes against cities across Ukraine. Two people died when Ukraine's biggest paediatric hospital suffered major damage.
Tetyana is the mother of young Edri, a little girl who was being treated at the Ohmatdyt Children's Hospital when it was hit."We came to the hospital five minutes before it all happened. We managed to get to the paediatric ward, I do not know, it is a nightmare. I do not even know if it was a missile hit or fragments of a missile."“My wife has come here, she drove here, then it all started, my son began crying so she did not go to the hospital, she ran to the bomb shelter instead.
"Emergency service workers are on the site. We hear voices, people are under the rubble. We're working as fast as possible to save these people, there's work to do." Russian has denied it targeted the facility, saying the Ohmatdyt Children's Hospital had actually been hit by fragments of a Ukrainian air defence missile.The international community has reacted with shock and condemnation.“The Secretary-General strongly condemns today's missile attack by the Russian Federation, hitting residential and civilian infrastructure across Ukraine, including in the cities of Kyiv, Kryvyi Rih, Dnipro and Pokrovsk.
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