Kyiv’s mayor Vitaly Klitschko on Tuesday ordered flags to be flown at half-mast across the city and canceled all entertainment events. The same applies to a number of other cities in the country.
Kyiv was hit hard by the attack. Most attention has been paid to the fact that the city’s largest children’s hospital was hit – an attack that claimed two lives and injured many others. The low number of casualties is due to the fact that the hospital was evacuated shortly before the attack, including 600 minors.
UN chief Danielle Belle, who is responsible for monitoring the human rights situation in Ukraine, calls the attack one of the most shocking since Russia invaded the country. The 600 children have been moved to other institutions. Many of them are seriously ill cancer patients.
Collection campaign
Now several Ukrainian companies have started a fundraising campaign so that the hospital can be rebuilt. Based on statements and information in the media, around 7.3 million dollars – almost 80 million kroner – had been received on Tuesday.
Kyivstar, Ukraine’s largest mobile operator, is among those who have promised to give 250,000 dollars (2.6 million kroner) to the reconstruction.
Hospital director Volodymyr Zhovnir says that a young doctor was killed in the attack, and that the hospital’s dialysis unit has been completely destroyed.
– At least four of the hospital’s buildings were partially destroyed, he says.
UN: Direct hit
Russia has denied that it attacked the hospital, claiming instead that it was hit by debris from a Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile.
It does not agree with the analysis made by the UN Office for the Human Rights Situation in Ukraine. Based on a video recording, it is concluded that the hospital was most likely hit directly by a rocket.
According to Ukraine’s Security Service, it was a Kh-101 cruise missile that hit the hospital, which, according to the service, can be supported by a number of pieces of evidence collected at the scene.
Digging up the dead
On Tuesday morning, there was still a search for survivors under the destroyed hospital buildings, writes BBC.
Elsewhere in the capital, a dead woman was dug up from the ruins of an apartment block. A total of twelve people are said to have been killed here.
In addition to Kyiv, the cities of Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, Slavjansk and Kramatorsk were hit.
Over 100 buildings are said to have been hit, and the attack is described as one of the worst since the war began.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has determined that at least 38 people were killed and 190 wounded, but based on reports from all the places that were hit, the total death toll is at least 41, writes Reuters
– We continue to work to strengthen the defense of our cities and local communities once morest Russian terror. Decisions will be made. The world has the strength needed, says Zelenskyj, who was on his way to Washington on Tuesday to attend the NATO summit there.
Four killed in Russia
At the same time, the governor of Russian Belgorod has reported that four people have been killed in Ukrainian attacks in the last 24 hours. The county is close to the Ukrainian border.
On Monday followingnoon, Ukrainian tennis star Elina Svitolina wore a black mourning band on her arm when she played a match at Wimbledon. She says it was difficult to concentrate on the match following what happened earlier in the day.
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2024-07-10 16:45:38