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Children's hospital hit as Russian strikes kill dozens in Ukraine

Children's hospital hit as Russian strikes kill dozens in Ukraine
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A children's hospital in Kyiv has been hit after Russia launched a wave of missile strikes against cities across Ukraine.

Two people died when the Ohmatdyt Children's Hospital, Ukraine's biggest paediatrics facility, sustained major damage during the blast.

President Volodymyr Zelensky's Chief of Staff, Andriy Yermak, said yesterday that thirty-six people were killed, and 140 were injured in the strikes.

Lesia Lysytsia, a doctor at the hospital, told the BBC the moment the missile struck was like in a film with a big light, then an awful sound.

She says one part of the hospital was destroyed, and there was a fire in another.

Pictures from the scene showed young children - some with IV drips - sitting outside the hospital as it was evacuated.

Kyiv's Mayor, Vitaliy Klitschko, says the two who died at the hospital were adults - one of whom was a doctor and he added that rescuers feared more people were trapped under the rubble.

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

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