Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appeals to the United States and its allies to take decisive action against Russia for the attack on Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital.
Zelenskyy’s appeal came at the start of a NATO military alliance summit in Washington, although Moscow denied responsibility for the deaths.
In an address on the sidelines of the NATO summit, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy said action must be taken before the U.S. presidential election in November to repel Russia’s offensive. “It’s time to step out of the shadows to make strong decisions to act and not wait for November or any other months to descend. We must be strong and uncompromising all together,” Zelenskyy stressed.
In Kyiv, injured children and babies were brought to safety. Others still search for survivors beneath the rubble of what was Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital.
Officials say it was struck in Russia’s heaviest bombardment of Kyiv in almost four months and one of the deadliest of the war, hitting seven of the capital’s ten districts.
The strike on the Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital, which interrupted open-heart surgery and forced young cancer patients to take their treatments outdoors, drew international condemnation.
The 10-story children’s hospital was caring for 627 patients at the time of the attack.