KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Rescuers searched the rubble of Ukraine's biggest children’s hospital on Tuesday for more dead and wounded, a day after authorities say a Russian missile leveled a wing of the Kyiv facility during a massive daytime barrage that killed at least 42 people throughout the country. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on the social platform X that 64 people were hospitalized in the capital, in addition to 28 in Kryvyi Rih and six in Dnipro — both cities in central Ukraine. It was Russia’s heaviest bombardment of Kyiv in almost four months and one of the deadliest of the war , hitting seven of the capital’s 10 districts, according to Ukrainian officials.
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 hospital, Ukraine's largest medical facility for children, was caring for 627 patients at the time of the attack, according to the country's health minister. “The building where we conducted dialysis for children with kidney failure or acute intoxication is ruined entirely,” the hospital's director general, Volodymyr Zhovnir, told reporters, estimating the overall damage at $2.
5 million. Danielle Bell, the head of a United Nations team tracking human rights violations in Ukraine, said at least two people were killed at the hospital and about 50 were injured, including seven children. There w.
