The Ukrainian government has proclaimed a day of mourning after Russia blasted the main children's hospital in Kyiv yesterday. Missiles rained down on the capital and other cities across Ukraine, killing at least 41 civilians in the deadliest wave of airstrikes for months.
The Ukrainian government has proclaimed a day of mourning after Russia blasted the main children's hospital in Kyiv yesterday. Missiles rained down on the capital and other cities across Ukraine , killing at least 41 civilians in the deadliest wave of airstrikes for months.
The Interior Ministry said there had also been damage in the central cities of Kryvyi Rih, Dnipro and two eastern cities. Three people were killed in the eastern town of Pokrovsk where missiles hit an industrial facility, the governor said. The attack came as leaders of NATO countries are due to begin a three-day summit, with the war in Ukraine one of the focuses.US President Joe Biden said that Moscow's deadly missile strikes in Ukraine, including on the children's hospital in Kyiv, were"a horrific reminder of Russia's brutality".
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk,deplored the attacks, saying:"Among the victims were Ukraine's sickest children."
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