Biden condemns 'Russian aggression' as Ukraine mourns children's hospital attack
Ukraine mourned a Russian strike on the country's largest children’s hospital, as President Joe Biden called “a horrific reminder of Russia’s brutality.”
They searched through the night, painstakingly picking through the rubble of Ukraine's largest children’s hospital, part of which was destroyed by the strikes President Joe Biden called “a horrific reminder of Russia’s brutality.”
As Ukraine mourned Tuesday, officials ended the search and rescue operation after the strike that badly damaged the renowned Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital.
As crews rushed to clear out the damage and get the facility up and running again, Danielle Bell, the head of the United Nations’ human rights monitoring mission said there was “a high likelihood that the children’s hospital suffered a direct hit.”
The Ukrainian Health Ministry said Monday that a doctor and a patient’s relative were killed in the strike on the facility, which interrupted open-heart surgery and forced young cancer patients to take their treatments outdoors.
Medical workers and patients were filmed in bloodied clothes, walking through the rubble, apparently dazed, while video taken inside the hospital showed windows blown out onto patient beds and blood spattered on the floor.
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