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Kyiv children’s hospital hit as Russian missile attack kills at least 29 in Ukraine (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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An unknown number of people have been trapped under rubble after Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital was hit during a daylight Russian missile barrage that the authorities said had killed at least 29 people across the country.

Volodymyr Zelenskiy vowed retaliation as he said Kyiv’s Okhmatdyt hospital, the main treatment centre in the country for children with cancer, had taken a direct missile hit. The strike was part of one of the heaviest attacks on the capital since Russia’s February 2022 invasion.

“Russia cannot be unaware of where its missiles are landing and must be held fully accountable for all its crimes: against individuals, against children and against humanity as a whole” Zelenskiy posted on the Telegram messaging app.

Ihor Klymenko, the interior minister, said five people had been confirmed dead in the Kyiv hospital attack and at least four more had been injured.

The strike largely destroyed the hospital’s toxicology ward. Hundreds of rescue workers and volunteers joined the effort to clear the debris and search for survivors. Officials and emergency staff said it was not immediately clear how many doctors and patients remained trapped under the rubble.

“We are extracting whoever we can. We don’t know the number of people trapped there,” said the health minister, Viktor Liashko, outside the hospital.

Maria Soloshenko, 21, a nurse in the toxicology ward, said hospital staff had been in the process of moving the children to a bomb shelter when the explosion occurred. “There was immediate panic when the strike hit,” she said, her gloves covered in blood.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (9 children)

THIS is what they're using their missles for???

For a moment, lets forget the morality of it for just a moment. Because I don't think anyone would argue that this is a bitch move on russias part, and we all empathise with Ukraine. Nobody is saying this was morally right. So for a moment lets forget the moral side of this.

Is this even a good use of their weapons? One missle in exchange for 29 deaths? And none of them are millitary, nor would they have become military any time soon.

I feel like you could send one guy with a machine gun, and take out 29 guys from the military if you planned it right.

From my understanding, russia has limited missles, and THIS is what they're doing??? This doesn't help them in any way. Plus as we saw in Vietnam, bombing cities of civilians as an invader doesn't break the country you're invading, it motivates people into joining the military.

So you just killed 29 kids, and I assume partially destroyed a hospital. That probably motivated 2,000 more young adults to fight.

Is russia stupid? Or are they bad at aiming? Is there anything else in the region that could have benefitted them more by hitting? Maybe a military barracks? Maybe a staging ground?

Because I can't think of one single smart reason to target a hospital with a missle, for how much they cost, and how back and forth this war is.

Either way, fuck russia.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

From what i know, Russia really likes using the tactic of 'carpet bombing'. They just aim a bunch of these vaguely in a direction of a city and call it a day. Because who cares about the Geneva Convebtions, right?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It was aimed at that hospital in particular, it was a Kh-101 precision cruise missile (costs between 3m$ and 13m$, btw). https://continental-defence.com/kh-101-missile-precision-strike-capabilities-and-advanced-technology

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