Russian missile attacks killed at least 41 people, hitting a children's hospital, Ukraine said

Russian missile attacks killed at least 41 people, hitting a children's hospital, Ukraine said
Russia hit the main children's hospital in Kyiv with rockets in broad daylight and rained missiles on other cities across Ukraine, killing at least 41 civilians in the deadliest wave of airstrikes in months.
Parents carrying babies walked the streets outside the hospital, stunned and sobbing after the rare daytime aerial attack. Windows were smashed and panels ripped off, and hundreds of Kyiv residents were helping clean up the debris.
"It was scary. I couldn't breathe, I was trying to cover (my child). I tried to cover him with this cloth so he could breathe," Svitlana Kravchenko, 33, told Reuters .
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who stopped in Poland before leaving for Washington to attend the NATO summit, said the death toll was 37, including three children. More than 170 people were injured.
However, the total number of casualties from attack sites in different areas amounted to at least 41 people.
Writing on the Telegram messaging app, Mr. Zelenskiy said more than 100 buildings were damaged, including a children's hospital and a maternity center in Kyiv, children's kindergartens, shopping centers and houses.
"Russian terrorists must answer for this," he wrote. "Caring cannot stop terrorism. Condolences are not a weapon."
The Interior Ministry said there was also damage in the central cities of Kryvyi Rih and Dnipro and two eastern cities.