Russian Attack on Children’s Health Centers in Ukraine: At Least 4 Children Dead

2024-07-09 13:34:01

Putin’s troops attacked the largest children’s health center in the capital of Ukraine, leaving at least four children dead

Hours after the Russian attack on a kyiv children’s hospital on Monday morning, another attack damaged the city’s maternity and fertility clinic, killing at least seven.

In the images from the vehicle’s camera that recorded the moment while it was moving, you can see the explosion at the Isida fertility clinic.

Reuters news agency confirmed the location based on the location and layout of the buildings and the gas station, which match archival and satellite images of the area. Later images also match the effects of the same scene.

The clinic is next to a highway on which the vehicle that recorded the impact was traveling (REUTERS/Oleksandr Ratushniak)

Three others were injured when Isida, the largest private women’s health and family planning center in Ukraine, was hit.

Russia launched missiles at Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities in broad daylight on Monday, killing at least 41 civilians in the deadliest wave of airstrikes in recent months.

Also among the targets was the largest children’s hospital in Ukraine, i Okhmatdytwhere local authorities indicated that at least four children had lost their lives at the hands of Putin’s bombings.

The moment a Russian missile hits the kyiv children’s hospital

“Among the dead are four children“, wrote on Telegram the head of the Military Administration capital city, Sergey Popko. 27 people, including the four minors, lost their lives as a result of the Russian missile crash in the city, which injured 117 civilians. Two adult hospital workers died in the attack.

Flash kyiv authorities after announcing an official day of mourning, and a donation campaign has been launched to finance the reconstruction of the children’s hospitalpeople continued to arrive at their facilities with medicines, water and other basic items on Monday night.

Hours after the attack, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) presented photographs of the remains of the strategic cruise missile Kh-101 A Russia attack the children’s hospital.

In a video published on social networks it seems to be seen how the missile goes directly to the premises of the hospital, not previously intercepted by Ukrainian air defenses.

Ukraine releases photos of missile it says hit kyiv children’s hospital

The UN condemned the wave of attacks saying that it was “unbelievable that children are dead and wounded in this war,” and Josep Borrell, from EUlambasted Russia for “mercifully” attacking civilians.

“Russia continues to mercilessly target Ukrainian civilians. Today’s airwaves killed or injured many, and destroyed the largest children’s hospital in kyiv, Okhmatdyt,” the Spanish politician wrote on his X social network profile.

UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, described the deadly Russian attacks as “absolutely horrific,” according to his spokesman, Stephane Dujarric.

Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz On this Monday he showed his country’s unwavering support for Ukraine: “Germany is unwavering on the side of the Ukrainians. Especially in these difficult times.”

President of the United States of America, Joe Biden considered the attack on a children’s hospital in the capital of Ukraine, which left 32 dead and many injured “a terrible reminder of Russian brutality.”

(With information from EFE, Reuters, AFP and AP)