The attack injured more than 153 people and largely destroyed kyiv’s main children’s hospital, which Ukrainian authorities have called a war crime.
At least 31 people have died in one of the largest Russian missile attacks on Ukraine in recent months.
The attack injured more than 153 personas and largely destroyed the main children’s hospital from kyiv, which the Ukrainian authorities have described as war crime.
Russia claims that the damage to the hospital occurred after a failure of a defense system Ukrainian. However, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky firmly rejects Moscow’s accusations.
“You can already see reports that the fault lies with the Ukrainian air defense, that it was the Air Defense of Ukraine and not its calculated attack,” said Zelensky, and then thanked all the Ukrainians who began to publish videos “where can see, specifically, not a part of this or that missile, but a direct missile attack that injured and killed many people in Ukraine today.
Zelensky said on his social networks that “demand responsibilities “to Russia for its acts of terror and to Putin for ordering the attacks.”
“Every time you try to talk peace with him, Russia responds with attacks on homes and hospitals,” lamented the president of Ukraine.
The UN Security Council meets on Tuesday to address the attack that its Secretary-General has strongly condemned.
Zelensky, asked for a emergency meeting of the UN Security Council and promised to “provide a forceful response” to Russian “aggression.”
In addition, kyiv urged Ukraine’s allies, who will meet in a NATO summit in Washington this weekto quickly decide to help strengthen the country’s air defensesstating that current systems are “insufficient.”
Apparently, more than 40 missiles of different typesincluding hypersonic kinzhal, hit residential buildings and public infrastructure in the cities of kyiv, Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, Sloviansk and Kramatorsk.
