Ukraine children’s hospital damaged as Russian missiles kill at least 29 – National

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Ukraine children’s hospital damaged as Russian missiles ***** at least 29 – National

Russia rained missiles down on cities across Ukraine in broad daylight on Monday morning, ******** at least 29 civilians and badly damaging Kyiv’s main children’s hospital in the deadliest air strike in months, officials said.

Hundreds of people rushed to clear debris at the hospital, where windows had been smashed and panels ripped off. Parents holding ******* walked in the street outside, dazed and sobbing after the rare daylight aerial *******.

“It was scary. I couldn’t breathe, I was trying to cover (my baby). I was trying to cover him with this cloth so that he could breathe,” Svitlana Kravchenko, 33, told Reuters.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia fired more than 40 missiles, damaging residential and commercial buildings and infrastructure in Kyiv, his home city of Kryvyi Rih, the central city of Dnipro and two eastern cities.

Ten people were ******* and 35 wounded in the main wave of attacks on Kyiv, authorities said. Some two hours later, debris from another missile ******* hit a different hospital in Kyiv, ******** four more and injuring three more, the emergency services said.

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Eleven were confirmed ***** in Kryvyi Rih and over 40 wounded, the emergency services said. Three people had been ******* in the eastern town of Pokrovsk where missiles hit an industrial facility, the regional governor said. One person was also ******* in the city of Dnipro, officials said.

“The whole world must act as decisively as it can to put an end to Russian air strikes. ******* – this is what ****** brings. Only together we can achieve true peace and security,” Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram.

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The Russian Defence Ministry said its forces had carried out strikes on defense industry targets and aviation bases in Ukraine.

Moscow has repeatedly denied targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure, although its attacks have ******* thousands of civilians since it launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.

The ******* came a day before leaders of NATO countries were due to begin a three-day summit of the military alliance that Zelenskyy is expected to attend with the war in Ukraine one of the focuses.

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“This callous aggression – a total disregard for human life, jeopardizing ********* & Transatlantic security – is why leaders will make significant security commitments to Ukraine this week,” the U.S. ambassador to Kyiv, Bridget Brink, posted on X.

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Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said Ukraine still lacked enough air defenses and urged Kyiv’s allies to supply more systems promptly to help protect its cities and infrastructure from regular Russian aerial attacks.

The power grid has already sustained so much damage from targeted Russian air strikes that began in March that electricity cuts have become widespread and the whirring sound of backup power generators in the streets has become ubiquitous.

DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private power producer, said three electricity substations and electricity networks had been damaged in the capital.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said the ******* on the capital was one of the largest of the war.

“We heard an **********, then we were showered with debris,” Svitlana told Reuters after she and her husband Viktor, emerged from a shelter at the hospital with their two-month-old baby.

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The baby was unharmed, but Svitlana had suffered cuts, and their car was totally ******* under the rubble of the destroyed building across the courtyard from the main ward.

Another ********** rang out over the city more than an hour after the strike as the air force issued a warning to residents that air defenses could engage Russian surveillance drones in the area.

 

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