Zelenskyi on the shelling of the children's hospital: people are under the rubble, Russia must be responsible for the crimes

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Part of Ukraine's main children's hospital collapsed due to Russian shelling
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12:29, 08.07.2024

on 8 July, Russian troops carried out a massive shelling of Ukraine. A number of districts in Kyiv came under fire, including the country's main children's hospital, Okhmatdet.



As of 12:00 Kyiv time, it is known that part of the hospital building collapsed as a result.

President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that there are people under the rubble.

"Okhmatdet" saved and returned health to thousands of children. Now the hospital is damaged by the Russian strike, there are people under the rubble, the exact number of injured and dead is still unknown. Now everyone is helping to remove the rubble: doctors, ordinary people. Russia cannot help but know where its missiles are flying, and must fully answer for all its crimes: against people, against children, against humanity in general," Zelensky writes.

According to the Kyiv administration, it is now known about seven dead in the capital, but does not specify the speech about a children's hospital. The debris of missiles today collapsed in Svyatoshynskyi, Shevchenkivskyi, Goloseevskyi, Desnyanskyi districts.

Zelenskyi on the shelling of the children's hospital: people are under the rubble, Russia must be responsible for the crimes
Zelenskyi on the shelling of the children's hospital: people are under the rubble, Russia must be responsible for the crimes
Zelenskyi on the shelling of the children's hospital: people are under the rubble, Russia must be responsible for the crimes
Zelenskyi on the shelling of the children's hospital: people are under the rubble, Russia must be responsible for the crimes

Kryvyi Rih was also under fire, where, according to the latest data, 10 people were killed and more than 31 wounded. An industrial enterprise was destroyed. In Dnipro, a multi-storey building and an enterprise were damaged. Disfigured service station. There are wounded. In Pokrovsk (Donetsk) three dead. There the Russians hit an enterprise.

As of now, there are 20 dead and about fifty wounded across Ukraine, according to the Interior Ministry, as a result of this morning's massive Russian attack across Ukraine, the head of Ukraine's Interior Ministry said.

Explosions were heard in Kyiv
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In Kyiv, rocket debris fell in three neighbourhoods, there was a hit in the building of a children's hospital

11:33, 08.07.24
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