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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. ...
