Ukraine says that at least 31 people killed, children

Kyiv, Ukraine – Russia launched dozens of missiles in the cities of everything Ukraine On Monday in an attack that killed at least 31 people and crashed into a kyiv Children’s Hospital, authorities said. The rare diurnal bombardment occurred when President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was due in Warsaw, said the Polish government, before flying to a NATO summit in Washington.

The explosions sounded and black smoke could be seen from the center of kyiv, News journalists reported.

The images distributed by officials of the Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital in kyiv showed people digging through rubble mounds, black smoke that undulating on a detention building and medical staff with exfoliants stained with blood. The mayor of kyiv, Vitaly Klitschko, said that two people died in the hospital as a result of the strike, including a 30 -year -old doctor, and another 16 were injured, seven of them children.

Klitschko said that people’s voices were heard under the debris while rescuers continued to dig over the rubble.

“Russian terrorists once again attacked Ukraine with missiles. Different cities: kyiv, Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, Sloviansk, Kramorsk,” Zelenskyy said, listing the main civil centers in the south and east of the country.

“More than 40 missiles of various types. Residential buildings, infrastructure and a children’s hospital were damaged,” Zelenskyy wrote on social networks.

The Ukraine Air Force said the attack included Russian hypersonic kinzhal missiles, one of the most advanced weapons in Russian arsenal. Hypersonic missiles can fly much more than the speed of sound, which makes them very difficult to detect and intersect using the antimile defense systems available today. Russia has Kinzhals used in previous attacks against Ukraine Since he launched his large -scale invasion, but it is believed to use weapons in moderation, since they have a limited supply.

Russian forces have repeatedly attacked the capital with massive manzagia since Moscow invaded Ukraine in February 2022, and the last important attack against kyiv with drones and missiles was last month. In addition to the continuous aerial bombardment of cities and energy infrastructure of Ukraine, Russia has also promoted its territorial profits in recent months, making incremental advances along the front line that extends from the borders of Northerna to south of Ukraine.

Ukraine Safety Services (SBU) said that their initial evaluation found that Moscow had hit kyiv’s children’s hospital with a KH-101 strategic cruise missile, while Andriy Yermak, Zelenksyy’s main advisor, said the projectile “contains twelve of microelectronics manufactured in the countries of the NCA.” ”

Russian officials recognized the massive missile strike on Monday, but denied, as they always do, pointing to any civil infrastructure. The Ministry of Defense in Moscow, in the statements reported by the state media, said the strike was an answer to the attempts of the Ukrainian forces “to attack Russian economic and economic facilities”, and said that it had affected the “facilities of the military industry of Ukraine and the aviation bases of the Ukrainian armed forces.”

The Russian Ministry of Defense said, without offering evidence that the images of destruction in kyiv were “due to the fall of a Ukrainian air defense missile.”

The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Ukraine Denise Brown condemned with damage to the wave of Russian attacks on Monday, saying in reference to the hospital that was beaten: “It is inconceivable that children die and wounded in this war.”

The Ukrainian Air Force said it had demolished 30 of the 38 missiles launched by Russia in the deadly attack on Monday.

In the hometown of Zelenskyy, Kryvyi Rih, which has been repeatedly eliminated by Russian bombings, the attacks killed at least 10 and wounded more than 30, said the mayor.

“In Dnipro, a high -rise building and a company suffered damage. A service station was damaged. There are injuries,” added the governor of Dnipropetrovsk Sergiy Lysak.

In the East Region of Donetsk, where Russian forces have taken a series of villages in recent weeks, the regional governor said that three people died in Pokrovsk, a city that had a population before the war of around 60,000 people.

There were no immediate comments on Kremlin’s strikes, but insists that their forces do not address civil infrastructure.

“This bombing directed civilians, hit the infrastructure, and the entire world should see today the consequences of terror, which can only be answered by force,” the head of the presidential administration in kyiv, Andriy Yermak, wrote on social networks, after the attack.

Zelenskyy and other officials in kyiv have been urging Ukraine allies to send more air defense systems, including patriots, the country beaten by the war to help defend themselves against fatal Russian aerial bombings.

“Russia cannot claim the ignorance of where their missiles are flying and should be considered fully responsible for all their crimes,” Zelensky said in another publication on social networks.

ANHELINA Shamlii contributed to this report.

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