Russian missile attack: A prominent children’s hospital in the nation’s capital, Kyiv, was struck by one of the Russian missiles that caused at least 20 deaths and over 50 injuries across Ukraine on Monday, according to officials.
After more than 40 different types of Russian missiles struck apartment complexes and public infrastructure in five Ukrainian cities, rescue workers combed through the debris to look for casualties.
The Kremlin said it was Ukrainian anti-missile fire, not Russia, that struck the hospital.
According to his spokesperson Stephane Dujarric, Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres vehemently denounced the Russian strikes. Guterres described the attack on the children’s hospital as “particularly shocking,”.
She continued by saying that although her team, which had visited the location on Monday, was unable to determine with certainty, it appeared that the Russian Federation was the missile’s launcher.
The Russian missile attack has drawn international outrage, and rescue workers continue to search for survivors trapped under the rubble. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called for accountability, emphasizing that “Russian terrorists must answer for this”.
The Russian missile attack on the Okhmatdyt children’s hospital caused debris to fall into heart patients’ open chests in the middle of surgery. Cancer patients had their beds wheeled into parks and onto the streets.
“It is very important that the world should not be silent about it now and that everyone should see what Russia is and what it is doing,” Zelenskyy said.
Western leaders who have backed Ukraine in three-day NATO summit in Washington beginning Tuesday. They will look at how they can reassure Kyiv of the alliance’s unwavering support and offer Ukrainians hope that their country can come through Europe’s biggest conflict since World War II.
At the Okhmatdyt children’s hospital in Kyiv, rescuers searched for victims under the rubble of a partially collapsed, two-story wing of the facility. Mayor Vitali Klitschko said at least 16 people, seven of them children, were injured.
Some organizations that work to support Russian missile strike on children’s hospital in Ukraine:
- UNICEF: UNICEF operates in over 140 countries, providing evidence-based interventions and response services for child victims of war and violence. They address urgent needs in conflict zones such as Gaza, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, and Yemen, as well as other regions like Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Haiti, Nigeria, and South Sudan.
- Children of War Foundation (COWF): COWF delivers global health and education access to communities affected by poverty, war, natural disasters, discrimination, climate change, isolation, and migration challenges.
- Children in Conflict: This global team offers health and humanitarian emergency response and protection to children living in some of the world’s worst conflict zones. They also assist children affected by war and the pandemic.
It was Russia’s heaviest bombardment of Kyiv in almost four months, hitting seven of the city’s 10 districts. At least seven people were killed in the capital, including two staff members at the hospital. Strikes in Kryvyi Rih, Zelenskyy’s birthplace in central Ukraine, killed 10.
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