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A barrage of Russian missiles hit central Kyiv on Monday, severely damaging Ukraine’s principal youngsters’s most cancers hospital, with authorities reporting a number of deaths.
Native authorities within the Ukrainian capital mentioned 5 individuals have been killed and an additional 9 injured. It was not instantly clear whether or not hospital sufferers or employees have been among the many useless. A image posted by Ukraine’s presidential workplace confirmed one baby with a head damage.
“This shelling was geared toward civilians, they hit the infrastructure, the entire world should see at the moment the results of terror, the reply to which may solely be drive,” mentioned Andriy Yermak, head of Ukraine’s presidential administration.
Russia on Monday additionally hit Ukraine’s southern cities of Dnipro, Kropyvnytskyi and Kryviy Rih, the place native authorities reported additional civilian casualties.
Ten individuals have been killed and an additional 30 injured in Kryviy Rih, Dnipro’s regional governor Oleksandr Vikul reported. Kryviy Rih is house to a few of Ukraine’s few remaining massive industrial enterprises. Vikul mentioned an industrial complicated had been hit, with out naming the plant.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned 40 totally different missiles have been used within the assault.
Video footage posted by the Ukrainian public broadcaster reveals the entrance of the Okhmatdyt youngsters’s hospital ripped off the principle constructing, with the encircling space affected by particles.
A minimum of a part of a surrounding constructing seems to have been destroyed as properly, with rescue staff on the positioning to retrieve any survivors. The highest of one other smaller hospital constructing was nonetheless smouldering.
Different movies posted on-line present particles and home windows scattered throughout the flooring and corridors of the hospital.
Giant plumes of smoke may very well be seen rising in a minimum of 4 different locations in town. The workplace of Kyiv mayor Vitaly Klitschko reported that fragments have landed on house buildings, an workplace block and homes in 5 districts within the capital.
