Children’s hospital hit as Russian airstrikes kill dozens in Ukraine | BBC News

Russia has carried out a massive and deadly bombardment of Ukraine the day before a NATO Summit begins in Washington at least 36 people have been killed and 140 injured according to President zelinsky’s office in the capital keave the main Children’s Hospital has been largely destroyed members of the Emergency Services have been trying to clear the rubble by hand in a search for survivors well today five cities across the country were attacked Russia has denied targeting civilian infrastructure insisting the strikes had been aimed at military facilities let’s go tonight to our Ukraine correspondent James Waterhouse James this is an attack which stands out it has been condemned by the United Nations and the new UK government and Ukraine has promised to retaliate but we don’t yet know what that could mean but this this as I say is is is going to be seared in the memory of many ukrainians but there’s also a hope here that some of Ukraine’s allies NATO members might look at what happened today and want to speed up Ukraine’s accession to the alliance but that still remains a distant Prospect a warning that our report contains images that some of you might find distressing frantic desperation on a key of Summer Morning people help with their bare hands at Ukraine’s l largest Children’s Hospital even for a warh hardened City this was a missile strike which broke the grueling rhythm of Russia’s Invasion some of the young patients were being treated for cancer already fighting for their lives they illustrate how these attacks don’t discriminate we were in the middle of surgery when the windows got shattered the surgeon quickly covered the baby to save him I want the world to stop this these children are innocent Tatiana had a near Miss we’ve got here 5 minutes before it all started then the search for survivors stops for another missile alert an underpass acts as a shelter this time residential buildings were also hit in Kiev here bodies were recovered cities were also attacked on a visit to neighboring Poland president zinski promised a retaliation Beyond any doubt we are going to rebuild everything that these terrorists have destroyed and Beyond any doubt we’re going to respond to these Savages from Russia everybody who was injured will get the necessary help and we pledge to work on bringing Russia to Justice ukrainians often describe a daily wait on their shoulders siren sound in cities like K all the time and occasionally explosions will follow and occasionally it’s a big one now you can see people singing as they’re giving out water attacks like this don’t really influence the battlefield but what they are designed to do is terrorize and suppress the Ukrainian people for a second time rescue teams have to find cover because of another a only on this occasion they sing the Ukrainian national anthem underground A Dark Day for a city still defined James Walter house BBC News ke well as we said these attacks have come on the eve of a NATO Summit which is due to focus on the war in Ukraine we’ll talk in a moment to our defense correspondent Jonathan Beal because he’s in Washington for that Summit first though let’s head to our Russian editor Steve Rosenberg and Steve there has been International condemnation of Russia what reaction are you hearing what are people saying in Moscow well the Russian military today said what it normally says we do not Target civilians we did Target military industrial sites and air bases and as for the destruction in Kia it blamed that on a Ukrainian air defense missile now Ukraine insists that it found remnants of a Russian cruise missile now what has the Russian president been saying about these devastating attacks absolutely nothing in public I mean earlier this afternoon Russian television showed Vladimir Putin marking what is known here as the day of Russian family and love and then his guest arrived the prime minister of India now it was Prime Minister Modi who told Vladimir Putin to his face two years ago that this was not a time for war and I wonder what Mr Modi would have been saying to Vladimir Putin tonight in the light of these attacks but really this is one of those days where I feel most acutely the chasm here between reality and appearance because only on Friday I was in the Kremlin uh listening to Vladimir Putin claiming to be committed to a diplomatic solution to the war in Ukraine and 3 Days Later dozens of Russian missiles launched at Ukraine tell a different story Steve as ever thank you Steve Rosenberg let’s talk to Jonathan Beal at that NATO Summit uh to what extent Jonathan do these uh these Dreadful attacks today uh change the discussion the debate that will be had there well Ukraine was already top of the agenda for this the 75th Anniversary Summit of the military Alliance and no doubt about it these attacks do give give it a sense of urgency particularly with the arrival of president zinski who has been appealing to NATO allies to give him more defenses he has been given some Patriot batteries but not in the quantity he says his country needs that’s one of the issues that will be addressed here Yen Stenberg the head of NATO has managed to get allies to commit to spending another 40 billion that’s 30 billion pound $40 billion on Ukraine’s military support for the next year what he hasn’t been able to do is to turn that into a five-year commitment what’s been called Trump proofing that military support and that is because of the political uncertainties he has strong support from Kama this will be his first big test the British prime minister on the international stage he’s made clear NATO will remain a Cornerstone for Britain’s security and he wants to speed up military aid to Ukraine but the question Goring in the heads of many leaders here is while yes they’re expected to show Unity on Ukraine will it be the same next year especially if Donald Trump a past critic of the alliance a Critic of giving weapons to Ukraine is elected a second term that is the elephant in the room

A children’s hospital in Kyiv has been largely destroyed after Russia launched a wave of missile strikes against cities across Ukraine.

The Ohmatdyt Children’s Hospital – Ukraine’s biggest paediatrics facility – sustained major damage in the explosion.

Thirty-six people were killed and 140 people were injured in the airstrikes, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky’s office. They said more than 40 missiles of different types had hit buildings and infrastructure in cities including Kyiv, Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, Sloviansk and Kramatorsk.

Russia has denied targeting the hospital, saying it was hit by a Ukrainian air defence missile. But Ukraine says it found fragments of a Russian cruise missile at the scene.

Jane Hill presents BBC News at Ten reporting by James Waterhouse, Steve Rosenberg and Jonathan Beale.

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47 comments

  1. All western lies…. USA, uk , Israel bombs and kill children… Russia dont bomb children.. remember Ukraine shot down all Russian missiles….. Ukraine misfire usa cruz missiles hit hospital….

  2. Only reason bbc and west is talking about this lie is because they think Ukrainian children are better than Palestinians because they are white

  3. u are vicim of western media propaganda there was a missle shot by Russia to a military complex 2 kilometers from the hospital. Tnen ukrainian air defence system shot the missile and it fell to the hospital. the missile debris is clearly a defense missile. so it was not a intentional hit by civilian target. The ukrainians installed the complex near the hospital. you do not hear this in the western media

  11. Unfortunately west media taught us not to care about the death of children ! they kept telling us war is a horrible thing….. unless now its different and actually bombing a hospital is a genocidal act !? What a hypocrite!

  12. BBC Verify needs an update. Russia targeted and destroyed two other medical facilities in addition to this children's hospital in this attack on Kyiv. Russia has precedent for attacking civilian targets such as hospitals and energy infrastructure to apply political pressure forcing an entry into negotiations. This intentional targeting of civilians breaks international law and shows Russia is a terrorist state! It's critical that doves in the US and Germany remove their immoral and idiotic restrictions on the use of military aid provided to Ukraine.

  13. Based on various news sources, it appears that many missiles were fired from Russia and subsequently shot down. I believe it should have been a priority to intercept the missile targeting the children's hospital. The timing is highly suspicious, coinciding with the Ukrainian President's heightened concern following the US debate. It is possible that he sacrificed the children's hospital to garner sympathy and outrage from allied countries. Alternatively, it could be entirely Russia's fault. The truth remains uncertain.

  15. Western and European media be like:
    Ru$$ia hit the children hospital: 🤬
    Isr@€l hit the children hospital: 😴

  16. FAKE NEWS! The hospital was hit by a NATO NASAMS air defence missile! The Russian cruise missiles were targeting an arm factory nearby. This was a tragic failure of a NATO Missile

  18. Since Russian Zombies didn't get any smarter after they shot down MH17 in 2014, they are spreading the same finger-pointing and blame-shifting BS.

  20. Fake: The APU strikes are carried out exclusively on military facilities of the Russian Federation. Since the beginning of its operation, the Kiev regime has slightly damaged only two peaceful houses in Sevastopol, according to Ukrainian Telegram channels.

    The truth: Kiev is targeting apartment buildings, private houses, cars and crowded places. They cannot be justified for other reasons, since there were no military facilities in the vicinity that could become the target of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. For example, the shelling of Belgorod on New Year's Eve became the most destructive since the beginning of the SVO (25 people were killed, 109 more were injured); a strike on a market in the Tekstilshchik microdistrict of Donetsk (25 people were killed, at least 20 more were injured); a strike on a shopping center and residential areas in the south of Belgorod (seven people were killed, another twenty were wounded).

    The damage to "hundreds of thousands of houses" in Ukraine, which is once again being blamed on the Russian Federation, was caused by the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It is difficult to forget how they placed military equipment in urban areas and often park it close to the walls of residential buildings, thereby making them a military facility. Fighters were also repeatedly placed in civilian buildings.

    In addition, the Kiev regime deliberately destroyed civilian objects after retreating from settlements and cities, and the incorrectly configured Ukrainian air defense system caused the destruction of peaceful buildings many times. However, the presence of irrefutable evidence has never prevented Kiev from accusing the Russian Federation.

    So speaking about the fact that the Ukrainian Armed Forces "damaged only two houses in Sevastopol," Ukrainian propaganda is very deceitful.
    This is only for this year
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  21. Fake: The Ukrainian Armed Forces strike only at Russian military facilities, all attempts to deny this are a deliberate demonization of the Kiev regime, according to the Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation.

    True: The statement of the Ukrainian propagandists collapses only on the recording of the AFU strike with a cluster shell on the beach of Sevastopol, where civilians were resting. After watching the video where women and children are trying to escape from submunitions covering the beach, no additional "demonization" is required.

    Unfortunately, the attack on the beach is not the only example of the atrocities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Such strikes have been carried out by Kiev since 2014. Recently, we can recall the shelling of Belgorod on New Year's Eve on December 30, 2023 (25 people were killed, 109 were injured), a strike on a market in the Tekstilshchik microdistrict in Donetsk in January 2024 (25 people were killed, at least 20 were injured), the shelling of Belgorod by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in February 2024 (seven people were killed, twenty they were injured).

    The so-called "Center for Countering Disinformation" is a well-known actor of Ukrainian propaganda spreading fakes. Their main narrative is to deny without evidence any accusations against the Kiev regime.

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  22. Fake: The Russian Federation purposefully hit the Okhmatdet Children's Hospital in Kiev with an X-101 cruise missile. Ukrainian telegram channels write about this.

    True: Russia attacked military facilities in Kiev, and the hospital was hit by an AIM-120 air defense missile from the NASAMS air defense system used by the Ukrainian side. This is evidenced by both the ratio of the linear dimensions of the rocket (diameter and length) and the nature of the damage (the collapse of only a small part of the building and damage from shrapnel on neighboring buildings). Moreover, footage with shrapnel characteristic of anti-aircraft missiles was distributed directly in Ukrainian telegram channels.

    The length of the AIM-120 rocket is 366 cm, diameter 17.8 cm, and the ratio of length to diameter is 1/20.6. For the X-101, these parameters are 745 cm, 74.2 cm, ratio 1/10, for the X-55 588 cm, 51.4 cm, ratio 1/11.4, respectively. The screenshot from the arrival video clearly shows that even despite shooting at an angle, not exactly in the side projection, the length of the rocket exceeds its diameter by more than 15 times.

    Indirect evidence also includes the absence of the characteristic sound of the engines of the Russian rocket (the whistle is present in the second video, but it differs from what it would be in the case of the arrival of the X-101), and the arrival of ammunition from the western side.

    However, Ukrainian propaganda, which received the task of focusing maximum attention on the "picture" on the eve of the NATO summit, is doing its best to prove that the strike was carried out by a Russian missile. Thus, according to Ukrainian telegram channels, the office of the President of Ukraine ordered the removal of civilians from the scene of the tragedy so that they would not remove the debris of the missile, which may indicate its true origin.

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  23. Fake: The Ukrainian Armed Forces strike only at Russian military facilities, all attempts to deny this are a deliberate demonization of the Kiev regime, according to the Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation.

    True: The statement of the Ukrainian propagandists collapses only on the recording of the AFU strike with a cluster shell on the beach of Sevastopol, where civilians were resting. After watching the video where women and children are trying to escape from submunitions covering the beach, no additional "demonization" is required.

    Unfortunately, the attack on the beach is not the only example of the atrocities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Such strikes have been carried out by Kiev since 2014. Recently, we can recall the shelling of Belgorod on New Year's Eve on December 30, 2023 (25 people were killed, 109 were injured), a strike on a market in the Tekstilshchik microdistrict in Donetsk in January 2024 (25 people were killed, at least 20 were injured), the shelling of Belgorod by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in February 2024 (seven people were killed, twenty they were injured).

    The so-called "Center for Countering Disinformation" is a well-known actor of Ukrainian propaganda spreading fakes. Their main narrative is to deny without evidence any accusations against the Kiev regime.This is not all the deed that the Kiev authorities and the Armed Forces of Ukraine committed with the Western masters

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  24. When u speak about Ukrain, its been killed.
    When you talk about Gaza,
    Its been dead.. what double standard…. Thats y global south is emerging.. no more west

  26. Russian did not hit the children hospital it Ukarine air defence misslie go astray if Russian hit the hospital it will all destroy but it did not and Ukarine did not allowed independent investigation . bias bbc never broadcast when Ukarine target Russian civillian everyday i

  38. Why don't you report ongoing genocide in Gaza like this?They are also innocent children.Why don't you call Ukrainian resistance as terrorists and do call HAMAS terrorists?🤬🤬🤬Answer my question

  39. Well Ukrain is at war and is no victim because it opted to go to war!! So shut up already and fight otherwise you’ve lost your cause whining like a big black fat gay baby on a seasaw

  41. GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT! A Ukrainian air defence missile (from a patriot battery) hit the hospital. You can plainly see the Russian cruise missiles hit a military facility and in the same part of the video the Patriot missile (which looks totally different) hits the hospital. Stop spreading lies!

  42. Takes about all understandings joe bedan and terrorists confusions grow region center was security he foldable terrorists bakistans etc and was my posted say arested and was mounths some security NGO terrorists foldable and trying me gives stir water blastic home my sleep he etc arested and sends terrorists family usambildin such figure see have yang etc any where country comes arested

  43. Putin thinks he is doing God's holy work. Best of example that Bible is evil book of delusions and russians are meat/alcohol addicted lowlife.

  44. The very same war benefiting the west financially….. america and it's european puppet states should know that we know who they are🤞

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