At least two more people were killed and 16 others, plus seven children, were injured after Russian missiles ripped through a Ukrainian children’s hospital on Monday, Ukrainian officials said, amid other crackdowns across the country that killed more than two dozen. of people.
kyiv’s Ohmatdyt children’s hospital was hit by a Russian missile on Monday, killing a doctor and another adult, according to Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the number of casualties from the attack on the hospital was still unknown as other people were still trapped under the rubble.
A hospital worker told the BBC that up to 70 percent of the hospital was destroyed by the missile, including one wing destroyed and another on fire, while patients were evacuated to a nearby hospital while many of them were in hospital. Duty. Fanatics.
Viktor Liashko, Ukraine’s fitness minister, quoted as saying that the hospital’s extensive care sets, oncology wards and surgical sets were damaged.
More than 40 Russian missiles were fired across Ukraine on Monday, striking several cities (including kyiv, Dnipro and Kramatorsk, among others) and damaging apartment buildings and infrastructure, Zelensky said.
Ukraine’s Interior Ministry said at least 20 other people were killed and 61 others wounded in Kyiv, while at least 31 other people and 125 more were wounded across Ukraine as a result of the attacks.
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20,000. This is the number of children treated each year at Ohmatdyt Children’s Hospital.
A three-day NATO summit begins Tuesday in Washington, D. C. , where the alliance is expected to talk about more military for Ukraine. Zelensky said Monday that he and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk signed an agreement offering Polish materials to shoot down Russian missiles and drones in Ukrainian airspace. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin later on Monday, his first stop in Russia in five years, but little is known about what they will discuss.
Russia has continually denied attacking civilian buildings or infrastructure in its invasion of Ukraine. The United States and several human rights organizations, such as Amnesty International, have accused Russia of committing crimes against humanity, including attacks on civilians and the illegal deportation of Ukrainian children. Calls for peace between Ukraine and Russia have accelerated in recent months after Putin said he was in a position to “freeze” the Russian war in Ukraine. Zelensky has opposed Putin’s peace terms, which would give Russia about 18% of occupied Ukrainian territory. , saying peace talks with the Russian president are “impossible. ” A peace summit was held in Switzerland last month, where some 80 countries called for Ukraine’s “territorial integrity” to be maintained in any peace talks.
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