Rescue work on the territory of the capitalʼs Childrenʼs Hospital Okhmatdyt has been completed.
This was reported by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine and the Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko.
As a result, two adults were killed (one of them is 30-year-old nephrologist Svitlana Lukyanchuk) and 32 people were injured when a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile hit the hospital. 8 children were hospitalized with various injuries.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has already established that it was Russia that hit Okhmatdyt with a missile. At the site of the impact, fragments of the hull of the rear part of the Kh-101 with a serial number and a part of the rudder of the same missile were found.
Debris clearance is still ongoing at two more locations in Kyiv. The mayor of the city Vitaliy Klychko informed that in the Shevchenkivsky district (Syrets), the bodies of three more people, including a woman, were found under the rubble of the destroyed entrance of a five-story building. The number of dead in this house has increased to 11. The search and rescue operation continues.
In total, as of 11:00 a.m., 31 people, including 4 children, were killed in Kyiv as a result of Russian strikes on July 8. Another 117 people were injured, including 10 children.
- On the morning of July 8, Russian troops attacked Kyiv, Kryvyi Rih and Dnipro with various types of missiles. In the capital, rockets destroyed the area of the metro station "Lukyanivska", and another rocket (X-101) hit the largest childrenʼs hospital of Ukraine Okhmatdyt, destroying it. Missile fragments collapsed the entrance of a five-story building in Syrets, hit the “ISIDA” medical center, damaged the “Domino” business center, and destroyed or damaged high-rise buildings and private houses in Holosiivsky, Dniprovsky, Svyatoshynsky, and Desnyansky districts.
- Missiles destroyed an enterprise in Kryvyi Rih, where 10 people died and more than 30 were injured. One person died in Dnipro and another seven people were injured.
- Ukraine initiates the convening of an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council due to a massive missile attack by the Russian Federation. However, Russia currently chairs the UN Security Council and will create obstacles.