Kyiv children's hospital hit as Russian daytime strikes on Ukraine kill 31
A children's hospital has been seriously damaged in Kyiv and 31 people have been killed across Ukraine during rare daytime Russian strikes
Photos from Ohmatdyt Children's Hospital - Ukraine's biggest paediatrics facility - show major damage to the hospital and children sitting outside as it was evacuated. Two adults have been killed there
A doctor at the hospital told the BBC the moment the missile struck was "like in a film" with a "big light, then an awful sound"
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is visiting Poland where he signed a security pact, vowed to retaliate
Russia denied targeting civilian infrastructure, insisting the strikes had been aimed at military facilities
Russia denied targeting military infrastructure, insisting that the attack had been aimed at the children's hospital
'The Russians are attacking our children'
Kyla Herrmannsen
Reporting from Kyiv
We can now bring you some more first-person accounts from inside the strike on the Ohmatdyt hospital this morning, this time from Irina - a surgical nurse at the facility.
She and a surgeon were about to operate on a 2-month-old baby at the exact moment that the attack happened.
The surgeon threw his body over the baby to protect it.
She says it was very loud and she says emotionally she went numb from the shock.
They managed to evacuate the baby into the shelter. The baby survived uninjured.
“The Russians are attacking our children,” she tells the BBC while crying
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