Russia rained down on cities across Ukraine with missiles that killed 29 civilians and damaged the main child hospital in Kyiv in the deadliest airstrikes in recent months.
Hundreds of people rushed to clean up the rubble in the hospital, whose windows were broken and the panels were torn. Parents carrying babies walk on the street outside, wandering and crying after rare air strikes during the day, Monday, July 8.
"I'm trying to cover it with this cloth so he can breathe," Svitlana Kravchenko, 33, told Reuters.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia fired more than 40 missiles, destroying residential and commercial buildings and infrastructure in Kyiv, its hometown of Kryvyi Rih, the central city of Dnipro, and two cities in the eastern region.
Ten people were killed and 35 others injured in the main wave of the attack on Kyiv, authorities said. About two hours later, debris from another missile attack hit another hospital in Kyiv, killing four people and injuring three others, emergency services said.
Eleven people have been confirmed dead in Kryvyi Rih and more than 40 injured, emergency services said.
Three people were killed in the eastern city of Pokrovsk where a missile hit an industrial facility, the regional governor said. One person was also killed in the city of Dnipro, officials said.
"The whole world must act decisively to end Russian airstrikes. Murder - this is what Putin brought. Only together can we achieve true peace and security," Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said its troops had carried out attacks on targets of the defense industry and aviation bases in Ukraine.
Moscow has repeatedly denied targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure, although its attacks have killed thousands of civilians since launching a full-scale invasion in February 2022.
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The attack comes a day before leaders of NATO countries are scheduled to start a three-day summit of the military alliance which Zelenskiy is expected to attend with war in Ukraine as one of its focuses.
This unsophisticated aggression is a total waiver of human life, endangering European and Transatlantic security is the reason leaders will make significant security commitments to Ukraine this week, the US ambassador to Kyiv, totaling Brink, wrote on X.
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