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President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia had introduced at least 40 missiles into targets in Ukraine, the country’s largest children’s hospital.
By Marc Santora and Brendan Hoffman
Marc Santora reported from Odessa and Brendan Hoffman from Kyiv, Ukraine.
Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital destroyed by a Russian missile on Monday rocked Kyiv, the capital, with images of bloodied and wounded children, sending many people rushing to the scene to help clean up twisted metal and broken concrete in a desperate search for survivors.
The attack on hospitals is part of a series of bombardments across Moscow across the country, adding to one of the deadliest attacks on Kyiv since the first months of the war. At least 38 other people have been killed across the country, adding 27 in Kyiv. More More than a hundred people were injured. Ukraine’s air force said it shot down 30 of the 38 missiles introduced through Russia in the attack, which began mid-morning.
“The attack was massive, combined with the use of air, ballistic and cruise missiles,” said Serhii Popko, head of kyiv’s army administration. “The missiles fired at the capital in waves and in other directions. »
At the hospital, a doctor and another adult were killed and at least 10 other people were injured, as well as seven children, the local government said. At least three young men were rescued from the rubble, the Ukrainian emergency service said.
Olha Melnyk, the mother of a child who was being treated in the hospital’s oncology unit, who was not there at the time, said she was in shock.
“There were many families like us, who had already waged their own war against oncology,” he said. “And you know, those kids can’t go underground, because of all the tubes and treatments. If they do this, it won’t be healing, you interrupt the healing session.
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