An hour after a wave of Russian missiles hit kyiv hard, ambulance sirens and emergency teams are still working in the city centre to reach the impact sites and treat the victims. According to the latest provisional report, at least nine people have died in the Ukrainian capital, and another 33 have been injured, in one of the worst offensives remembered in this city since the start of the large-scale invasion in February 2022. The Russian offensive also hits the heart of Ukraine on the eve of the NATO meeting in Washington, which will celebrate the 75th anniversary of its creation and where Kiev is expected to obtain new guarantees for future accession to the Alliance, a step that the Kremlin strongly rejects. The Russian attacks have killed 20 people throughout the country this day.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has described the attack as terrorist and has estimated that 40 missiles have fallen on the country in the last few hours. In addition to the fatalities in kyiv, there are at least ten deaths in Kryvyi Rih and another three in Prokrovsk, in the east of the country.
This time, despite the efforts of the anti-aircraft defence systems, Russian shells hit and damaged, both inside and out, the Okhmadi children’s hospital on the right bank of the Dnieper River, just a couple of kilometres from the city centre. This centre is one of the best dedicated to children, not only in Ukraine but in all of Europe.
The images from inside the building, captured by the personnel who filmed the moments after the attack, and those from outside, with the façade destroyed and one side practically collapsed, are terrifying. A line of dozens of volunteers is working alongside emergency teams to clear the rubble from the most damaged part in case there are people trapped.
According to Ukrainian Interior Minister Igor Klimenko, some of the seven deaths so far caused by the Russian offensive on the capital have been recorded in the children’s hospital. “This is one of the worst attacks,” said the city’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko. “You can see: it is a children’s hospital.” Klitschko, who has travelled to Okhmatdi, said that the patients from this centre have been transferred to other public facilities.
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Before Monday’s early morning airstrikes, Moscow had already launched several missile attacks in central Russia’s Yitomir and Cherkasy provinces, causing no casualties or damage.
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