Five Ukrainian cities including the capital were targeted.
Russian missiles blasted cities across Ukraine on Monday, damaging the country’s largest children’s hospital and other buildings in a fierce assault that interrupted heart surgeries and forced young cancer patients to take their treatments outdoors. At least 31 people were killed, officials said.
The President said on social media: “It is very important that the world should not be silent about it now and that everyone should see what Russia is and what it is doing.”Attacking innocent children. The most depraved of actions.Western leaders who have backed Ukraine in the war are holding a three-day Nato summit in Washington beginning on Tuesday.
On the hospital’s main 10-storey building, windows and doors were blown out and walls were blackened. The attack forced the hospital to shut down and evacuate. Some mothers carried their children away on their backs. Others waited in the courtyard with their children as calls to doctors’ phones rang unanswered.
Russia’s defence ministry said the strikes targeted Ukrainian defence plants and military air bases and were successful. It denied aiming at any civilian facilities and claimed without offering evidence that pictures from Kyiv indicated the damage was caused by a Ukrainian air defence missile.
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