Rescue work at Kyiv Children’s Hospital completed after Russian air strike

Search and rescue operations at the Ochmatdyt Children’s Hospital in Kyiv were suspended on Tuesday afternoon, Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said. A day earlier, a Russian missile attack on the facility sparked international outrage.

Two people were killed and 32 others injured in the attack on the hospital, including eight children who had to be hospitalized, Klymenko wrote.

The children’s hospital was one of several locations in Kyiv targeted in a series of Russian airstrikes that killed at least 31 people in the Ukrainian capital.

In a press conference on Tuesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stressed that the Russian military was attacking only military targets, repeating a statement by the Russian Defense Ministry on Monday that said the attack on the children’s hospital was caused by a “Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile fired from an anti-aircraft missile system inside the city.”

The massive Russian attack on Ukraine on Monday morning targeted not only Kiev but also the cities of Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, Skadovsk, Pokrovsk and Kramatorsk.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on his official Telegram channel on Tuesday that a total of 38 people were killed in the attacks across Ukraine, including four children. A total of 190 people were injured.