Kyiv says Russia hit children’s hospital with cruise missile

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KYIV, UKRAINE – JULY 08: (—-EDITORIAL USE ONLY – MANDATORY CREDIT – ‘STATE EMERGENCY SERVICE OF UKRAINE / HANDOUT’ – NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS – DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS—-) Emergency teams work at the scene where Russian army shelled and caused death, injuries, fire and damage on the various regions of the city in Kyiv, Ukraine on July 08, 2024. (Photo by State Emergency Service of Ukraine/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Ukraine said this afternoon that Russian forces had struck a children’s hospital in Kyiv with a cruise missile, as part of a nationwide bombardment that killed more than two dozen people.

The Security Services of Ukraine (SBU) said its initial assessment found that Moscow had struck the facility with a KH-101 strategic cruise missile, while a senior presidential official Andriy Yermak said the projectile “contains dozens of microelectronics manufactured in NATO countries”.

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