Witnesses express shock and revulsion after deadly missile strike on Ukraine's largest paediatric clinic.
#5
Charlie Chan:
Number three son have excellent head. Question have always been, "What it contain?"
Another view...
On the ground at Kyiv's Okhmadyt children's hospital, scenes of chaos and devastation
breakingdefense.com
... Editor's note: On Monday, a Russian missile struck a children's hospital in Kyiv, an act that has captured global attention and led to fresh condemnation of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Breaking Defense contributor Kollen Post was in Kyiv when the strike happened. Below, he details the scene in the immediate aftermath. ...
At the tail end of Monday morning a Russian cruise missile flew into the toxicology building next door to Alina and Yulya, blowing it into rubble.
"We were right here, we were in the middle of heart surgery," Alina, a surgical assistant, told Breaking Defense. "We had to stay and close it up."
The cardiology building where they work is still standing behind them, but all of the windows have been blown in. The first reaction, says Yulia, "We had to protect the children. Then patch ourselves up," she says, nodding at the cuts running down Alina's forearms from the glass shards.
"Thank God we didn't have any serious injuries on our side," Yulia continued.
The children were taken away quickly, particularly the ones in the worst condition. One of the last out of the hospital was a little girl, maybe eight, wheeled out in a stroller, cheeks swollen but the deep cuts in them patched. Her face was still covered with blood.
Two other children sat on a bench in a park area near the entrance to the hospital grounds, a pair of nurses kneeling down to bandage the cuts on their arms as firefighters rushed by. A little boy sobbed, asking to go home. ...
@#30 ... Russia is claiming it was a NASAMS fired by Ukraine. ...
Ukraine Rebuts Russian Claims About Strike on Kyiv Hospital
www.bnnbloomberg.ca
... Investigators used the engine and other parts of the cruise missile to identify it as an X-101, Ukraine's Security Service known as the SBU, said in a statement, presenting photos of the missile debris including measurements and serial numbers. The X-101 is an air-launched cruise missile which Russia has used during its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
"Experts' conclusions are unambiguous " it was an intentional strike," said the SBU. The complete destruction of the two-story hospital building was caused by an X-101 warhead, which weighs over 400 kg (881.9 pounds), according to the statement.
Kyiv has sought to refute claims by Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, who told RIA that a falling NASAMS anti-air missile, which Ukraine uses for air defense, was responsible for the damage to the hospital. She also claimed that a military facility was located near the hospital.
The Norwegian-developed NASAMS couldn't cause that scale of damage "as their warheads are 20 times less powerful," the SBU said. ...
@#43 ... Certainly. Not probable, but possible. ...
Yeah, that looks more like an excuse to me than what might have actually occurred.
Pres Putin has never seemed to have a conern bout Ukrainian children.
To wit...
How Moscow grabs Ukrainian kids and makes them Russians (March 2023)
apnews.com
... Olga Lopatkina paced around her basement in circles like a trapped animal. For more than a week, the Ukrainian mother had heard nothing from her six adopted children stranded in Mariupol, and she was going out of her mind with worry.
The kids had spent their vacation at a resort in the port city, as usual. But this time war with Russia had broken out, and her little ones " always terrified of the dark " were abandoned in a besieged city with no light and no hope. All they had now was her oldest son, Timofey, who was still himself just 17.
The questions looped endlessly in her head: Should she try to rescue the children herself " and risk being killed, making them orphans yet again? Or should she campaignto get them out from afar " and risk them being killed or falling into the hands of the Russians?
She had no idea her dilemma would lead her straight into a battle against Russia, with the highest stakes of her life.
The Associated Press first published this story on Oct. 13, 2022. On Friday, the International Criminal Court said it had issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes, accusing him of personal responsibility for the abductions of children from Ukraine. Lopatkina told the AP on Friday, "Everyone must be punished for their crimes." ...
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