Emergency and rescue personnel together with medics and others clear the rubble of the destroyed constructing of Ohmatdyt Kids’s Hospital following a Russian missile assault within the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on July 8, 2024, amid Russian invasion in Ukraine. |Picture by Roman PILIPEY / AFP
Russia struck cities throughout Ukraine on Monday with a missile barrage that killed three dozen individuals and ripped open a kids’s hospital in Kyiv, an assault condemned as a ruthless assault on civilians.
Dozens of volunteers together with hospital employees and rescue staff dug by way of particles from the Okhmatdyt paediatric hospital in a determined seek for survivors after the uncommon day-time bombardment, AFP journalists on the scene noticed.
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President Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned Russia launched dozens of missiles towards 5 cities and cities, within the south and east of the nation, in addition to the capital.
Ukrainian officers mentioned 33 individuals had been killed and one other 137 wounded within the wave of 38 missiles. Three extra had been killed by Russian fireplace in Pokrovsk in jap Ukraine.
The air pressure mentioned air defence techniques had downed 30 projectiles.
Zelensky known as for an emergency assembly of the United Nations Safety Council over the barrage and urged Ukraine’s allies to ship “a stronger response to the blow that Russia has as soon as once more delivered on our inhabitants, on our land and on our kids.”
France denounces ‘barbaric’ assault
The UN condemned the “unconscionable” Russian strikes whereas the EU slammed Moscow for “ruthlessly” focusing on civilians and the French overseas ministry known as the bombardment of a kids’s hospital “barbaric”.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described the assault as “abhorrent.”
Kyiv mentioned the kids’s hospital had been struck by a Russian cruise missile with parts produced in NATO member international locations and introduced a day of mourning within the capital.
Russia hit again claiming the in depth missile harm in Kyiv was attributable to Ukrainian air defence techniques.
Moscow mentioned its forces had struck their “meant targets”, which it added had been solely defence trade and navy installations.
Medical employees acted rapidly to maneuver sufferers and personnel to the ability’s basement after air raid sirens rang out over Kyiv on Monday.
“For some motive, we at all times thought that Okhmatdyt was protected,” mentioned Nina, a 68-year-old hospital worker.
“We had been one hundred pc certain that they might not hit right here,” she advised AFP, as she described the frantic rush as employees moved kids with IV drips to the bunker.
Officers in Kyiv mentioned the assault had additionally broken a number of residential buildings and an workplace block in Kyiv the place AFP reporters noticed automobiles on fireplace and shredded bushes in charred courtyards.
Vitality websites ‘destroyed, broken’
DTEK, Ukraine’s largest personal power firm, mentioned three of its electrical substations had been destroyed or broken in Kyiv. Russian strikes on electrical energy infrastructure have already halved Ukrainian technology capability in current weeks in comparison with one yr in the past.
Russian forces have repeatedly focused the capital with large barrages since Moscow invaded Ukraine in February 2022, and the final main assault on Kyiv with drones and missiles was final month.
The emergency providers mentioned 22 individuals had been killed in Kyiv on Monday, together with at each medical amenities hit within the assault and that one other 72 had been wounded.
Should reply ‘with pressure’
In Zelensky’s hometown of Kryvyi Rig, which has been repeatedly targed by Russian bombardment, the strikes killed not less than 10 and wounded over 41, officers there mentioned.
In Dnipro, a metropolis of round a million individuals in the identical area, one individual was killed and 6 extra had been wounded, the area’s governor mentioned, when a excessive rise residential constructing and petrol station had been hit.
And within the jap Donetsk area, the place Russian forces have taken a string of villages in current weeks, the regional governor mentioned three individuals had been killed in Pokrovsk — a city that had a pre-war inhabitants of round 60,000 individuals.
“This shelling focused civilians, hit infrastructure, and the entire world ought to see at present the results of terror, which may solely be responded to by pressure,” the pinnacle of Ukraine’s presidential administration, Andriy Yermak, wrote on social media.
Zelensky and different officers in Kyiv have been urging Ukraine’s allies to ship extra air defence techniques, together with Patriots, to the war-battered nation to assist fend off lethal Russian aerial bombardment.
“Russia can’t declare ignorance of the place its missiles are flying and have to be held totally accountable for all its crimes,” Zelensky mentioned in one other put up on social media.
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