Ukraine says at least 31 people were killed and hit the Children’s Hospital in a large Russian missile attack

Kyiv, Ukraine – Russia launched dozens of rockets in cities through Ukraine The officials said on Monday in an attack, killing at least 31 people and destroying the Children’s Hospital in Kiev. The Polish government said that the rare Russian barrage that was passing by President Folodimir Zelinski in Warsaw, before flying to the NATO summit in Washington.

The explosions are emptied, and black smoke can be seen as it rises from the center of Kiev, according to Agence France -Presse journalists.

The photos distributed by officials from the Oukhtout Children’s Hospital in Kiev showed that people are digging through the rubble of the rubble, black smoke that rises on a full -fledged building and medical employees wearing blood stained. The mayor of Kiev Vitaly Klitschko said that two people died in the hospital as a result of the strike, including a 30 -year -old doctor, who wounded 16 others, seven of them.

Klitschko said that the voices of the people had heard from the rubble as the rescuers continue to drill through the debris.

“The Russian terrorists have again attacked Ukraine on a large scale missile. Various cities: Kiev, Dnibro, Kreifi Rier, Slovensk, Kamurorsk,” Zelinski said.

“More than 40 missiles of different types. Residential buildings, infrastructure and children’s hospital were damaged,” Zelinski wrote on social media.

The Ukrainian Air Force said that the attack included the Russian high -vocal kinsalez missiles, one of the most advanced weapons in the Russian arsenal. Ultra -chest missiles can fly much more than the speed of sound, making them very difficult to discover and intersect using missile defense systems available today. Russia has Kinsales was used in previous attacks on Ukraine Since she has been invaded widely, but it is believed to use weapons slightly because they are in the limited show.

The Russian forces have repeatedly targeted the capital with huge spices since Moscow invaded Ukraine in February 2022, and it was the last major attack on Kiev with drones and missiles last month. In addition to the ongoing aerial bombardment of Ukraine cities, the infrastructure of power, Russia has also pushed its regional gains in recent months, Make the gradual progress Along the front line that runs from the northern border to Ukraine to the southern border.

The security services in Ukraine (SBU) said that its initial evaluation found that Moscow had struck Kiev Children’s Hospital with the KH-101 strategic cruise missile, while Andrei Yermak, the chief adviser to Zelenxi, said that the shell “contains dozens of microscopic electrons in NATO countries.”

Russian officials admitted a huge missile strike on Monday, but they always denied, targeting any civil infrastructure. The Ministry of Defense in Moscow said, in statements reported by the state -run media, that the strike was in response to the attempts of the Ukrainian forces “to strike Russian energy and economic facilities”, and claimed that it struck “Ukrainian military industry facilities in Ukraine and the rules of aviation in the Ukrainian accompanying forces.”

The Russian Ministry of Defense, without providing evidence, said that the destruction of Kiev “due to the fall of the Ukrainian air defense missile.”

The United Nations Human Coordinator of Ukraine condemned Dennis Brown harshly the Monday wave of Russian strikes, saying, in reference to the hospital, which was wounded: “It is unreasonable for children to kill and wound them in this war.”

Air Force Ukraine said it had dropped 30 of 38 missiles fired by Russia in a deadly attack on Monday.

The mayor said that the birthplace of Zelinski Kreifi Rted, which was repeatedly and repeatedly due to Russian palaces, had killed at least 10 and wounded more than 30 years.

“In DNIPRO, a tall and institutional building was damaged. A service station was damaged. There is a wounded.”

In the eastern Donetsk region, where Russian forces have taken a series of villages in recent weeks, the regional ruler said that three people have been killed in Boukerrovsk-a town with a population of about 60,000 people before the war.

There was no immediate comment on the strikes from the Kremlin, but it insists that its forces are not targeting the civil infrastructure.

“This bombing targeted civilians and hit the infrastructure, and the whole world should see today the consequences of terrorism, which can only be answered by force,” said Andrei Yermak, head of the presidential administration in Kiev, on social media.

Zelenskyy and other officials in Kyiv Ukraine allies urge to send more air defense systems, including patriots, to the country whose war is increasing to help promote deadly Russian air strikes.

“Russia cannot claim ignorance of the place where its missiles fly and must be completely responsible for all its crimes,” Zelinski said in another publication on social media.

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