Russian missile attack hits Ukraine children’s hospital
Russia targeted Ukraine with a flurry of missile strikes Monday, killing at least 28 people in a barrage that hit an apartment complex and a children’s hospital.
More than 100 people were also injured in the attacks, according to a Telegram post from Ihor Klymenko, Ukraine’s head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Klymenko said Russia targeted 50 civilian objects. The attacks killed 11 in the Dnipropetrovsk region and 17 in the capital of Kyiv.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a post on the social platform X that the Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital, which he said has saved thousands of children, was struck in the attack.
“Now that the hospital has been damaged by a Russian strike, there are people under the rubble, and the exact number of casualties is still unknown,” Zelensky wrote. “Russia cannot claim ignorance of where its missiles are flying and must be held fully accountable for all its crimes.”
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported Russia launched some 38 missiles toward the country, and around 30 of them were taken out by Ukrainian defenses.
“Another terrorist attack on peaceful cities. Ukraine is mourning,” the Ukrainian military wrote on Facebook.
Russia’s campaign to target Ukrainian infrastructure led to the International Criminal Court (ICC) last month issuing arrest warrants for former Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov, the nation’s top general who also oversees the war in Ukraine.
The ICC accused them of responsibility for Russia’s attacks on civilian objects and the targeting of Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
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