KYIV: Russia launched dozens of missiles at cities across Ukraine on Monday (Jul 8) in an attack that killed at least 20 people and smashed into a children's hospital in Kyiv, officials said.
Rescuers work at Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital that was damaged during Russia n missile strikes, amid Russia 's attack on Ukraine , in Kyiv on Jul 8, 2024. KYIV: Russia launched dozens of missiles at cities across Ukraine on Monday in an attack that killed at least 20 people and smashed into a children's hospital in Kyiv, officials said.
Pictures distributed by officials from the children's medical facility in Kyiv showed people digging through mounds of rubble, black smoke billowing over a gutted building and medical staff wearing blood-stained scrubs. Rescuers work at Ohmatdyt Children's Hospital that was damaged during Russian missile strikes, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Jul 8, 2024.
Russian forces have repeatedly targeted the capital with massive barrages since Moscow invaded Ukraine in February 2022, and the last major attack on Kyiv with drones and missiles was last month.In Zelenskyy's hometown Kryvyi Rig, which has been repeatedly targeted by Russian bombardments, the strikes killed at least 10 and wounded over 30, the mayor said.
There was no immediate comment on the strikes from the Kremlin but it insists its forces do not target civilian infrastructure. Zelenskyy and other officials in Kyiv have been urging Ukraine's allies to send more air defence systems, including Patriots, to the war-battered country to help fend off fatal Russian aerial bombardments.
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