Russian missile attack on Kyiv has caused destruction to the city, houses and civil infrastructure.
At least 44 people were killed and 196 were injured, including ten children.
Rescue workers rescued 11 people, including three children.
As a result of the attack, the new building of the National Children’s Hospital Okhmatdyt (maternity and childhood care) was destroyed.
Okhmatdyt is the largest children’s, not military, diagnostic and treatment facility in Ukraine and one of the largest in Europe.
Up to 18,000 children are treated annually in the Okhmatdyt Hospital, about 20,000 receive emergency care in the trauma centre, and about 7,000 operations are performed. Okhmatdyt saves lives and treats children with cancer.
Intensive care, operating, and oncology units were damaged.
The Russian strike destroyed the building where the children received dialysis; that means they were attached to blood purification systems.
It is already clear that this is one of Russia’s biggest war crimes during the full-scale war.
Russia is purposefully at war with the civilian population of Ukraine, attacking residential buildings, hospitals, and recreation areas.
Entire families die in their own homes during shelling. Russia once again showed that it is like a terrorist country.
The barbarian attack on Okhmatdyt was purposeful. What the video footage shows. Therefore, this is not a mistake or falling debris, as Russian propaganda tries to show.
Ukrainian children are often the victims of Russian attacks. Since 2022, more than half a thousand children have died, whose identities have been reliably established.
Ever since the Russians bombed the maternity hospital and the Drama Theatre in Mariupol, where children and their parents tried to save themselves.
Moscow has routinely denied targeting residences, schools, hospitals, and other civilian structures despite frequent bombings that suggest otherwise.
Russian public figures directly call for the killing of Ukrainian children, and Russian commentators on social networks rejoice over the deaths of Ukrainian children.
The head of the UN General Assembly, Dennis Francis, the former ambassador to the UN from Trinidad and Tobago, strongly condemned the attack, calling it “a gross violation of international law and the principles of the UN Charter.”
Since Russia commenced its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, at least 1,736 medical facilities in Ukraine have been damaged or destroyed.
On March 9, 2022, a bomb air-dropped by Russian forces landed in one of the courtyards of Mariupol’s Hospital #3, damaging maternity and pediatric units and killing and injuring patients and staff.
As of June, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine put the number of civilians killed since the start of full-scale invasion at least 9,560 civilians with at least 21,450 more injured, mainly by explosive weapons with wide area effects.
The casualties include at least 1,796 children (594 killed and 1202 injured).
Moscow’s crimes erase any possibility of dialogue Ukraine with Putin’s regime. The Russian leaders’ place is in the international tribunal, not in the negotiation hall.
