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Russian missiles kill 31 in Ukraine, gut Kyiv childrens hospital

Published : Tuesday, 9 July, 2024 at 12:00 AM  Count : 255
KYIV, July 8: Russia struck cities across Ukraine on Monday with a missile barrage that killed 31 people and heavily damaged a Kyiv childrens hospital in an assault condemned as a ruthless attack on civilians.

Dozens of volunteers, doctors and rescue workers were digging through debris of a part of Okhmatdyt paediatric hospital in a desperate search for survivors after the rare day-time bombardment, AFP journalists on the scene saw.

The first responders ran for cover when sirens and a explosion sounded after the initial strikes -- a repeat attack that left four dead at a maternity hospital in a separate district of Kyiv, emergency services said.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian forces fired more than 40 missiles toward at least five major civilian hub, mainly in the south and east of the country, as well as the capital.

Zelensky arrived in Poland as news of the strikes broke to sign a security deal with Prime Minister Donald Tusk in Warsaw, where the leaders held of minute of silence for the victims.

The Ukrainian leader in Warsaw called on allies to deliver "a stronger response to the blow that Russia has once again delivered on our population, on our land and on our children."

The UN condemned the wave of strikes saying it was "unconscionable that children are killed and injured in this war," while the EUs Josep Borrell slammed Russia for "ruthlessly" targeting civilians.

France condemned the attacks, with the foreign ministry calling the bombardment of a childrens hospital in Kyiv "barbaric".

Kyiv said the childrens hospital had been struck by a Russian cruise missile and claimed that it contained components produced in NATO member countries.

Russia however claimed the extensive missile damage in Kyiv was in fact caused by a Ukrainian air defence missile.

Moscow said its forces had struck their "intended targets", which it added were only defence industry and military installations.

Natalia Svidler, 40, was in the hospital at the time of the strike with her two-year-old son, who was due to have surgery this week, when the air raid sirens sounded.

"The nurses told us to go down to the basement. After a while we heard a loud rumble and then the ceiling in the basement collapsed a little," she said at the scene.

"Everyone got very scared, of course. Everyone started screaming and running," she told AFP.    —AFP



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