Children's hospital hit as Russian missiles kill dozens in Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities
Russian missiles killed at least seven people and struck a children’s hospital in Kyiv, Monday, while another attack in a central city killed at least 10.
KYIV — A children's hospital was hit as Russian missiles rained down on Kyiv and other parts of central Ukraine, officials in the country said Monday.
Kyiv city administrators said that two adults were killed in the attack on the capital's famous Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital. Another 17 people were killed and 53 were injured by the strikes on the city. More were feared trapped under the debris.
Seven of the injured were children at the hospital according to a Telegram post from Kyiv’s mayor Vitali Klitschko, who added that one of the adults killed there was a doctor. Klitschko has declared Tuesday a day of mourning for the victims.
Thick plumes of smoke rose from several Kyiv neighborhoods and Ukraine’s health ministry shared a video showing charred exteriors and blown out windows at the hospital and one of its complexes reduced to rubble.
It was not immediately clear whether the hospital had been directly hit or whether fragments of intercepted missiles fell on it.
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