President Zelensky said Moscow’s forces fired more than 40 long-range munitions at different cities in a rare daytime raid
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The main children’s hospital in Kyiv was struck in a Russian missile barrage, which killed at least 20 people across Ukraine.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian forces fired more than 40 long-range munitions, including the hypersonic Kinzhal, at different cities in a rare daytime raid.
Rescue workers were dispatched to Ohmatdyt Children’s Hospital amid reports that children were trapped in the wreckage of the building.
Parents holding bloodied babies, crying and dazed, were photographed trying to escape the carnage after the strike.
Young patients could be seen receiving treatment on the street as local authorities promised the missile attack would not disrupt services at the hospital.
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Patients at the hospital were being evacuated to nearby facilities in the city, Serhii Popko, head of Kyiv’s military administration, said, as another raid siren was sounded over the capital.
“The hospital has been damaged by a Russian strike, people are under the rubble, the exact number of wounded and dead is currently unknown. Now everyone helps to sort out the debris: doctors, ordinary people,” Mr Zelensky wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
“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.”
“It is very important that the world should not be silent about it now and that everyone should see what Russia is and what it is doing,” the Ukrainian president added.
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The long-range barrage on Ukraine came as Viktor Orban, Hungary’s prime minister, met Xi Jinping, the Chinese president, to discuss a potential peace deal to end the war. Mr Orban has also visited Mr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin in recent days.
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