What happened after Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital was hit in a missile attack

On 8 July, Russia launched a missile strike on Ukraine’s capital city, Kyiv, with Ohmatdyt, the largest paediatric hospital in the country, caught in the attack.

Before the attack a statement posted on the hospital’s website read, “We’re on duty in the wards where the children are on life support devices—they can’t be transported to the bomb shelter. We’re hiding from explosions, performing extremely complex surgeries in makeshift operating rooms in basements. As before, we are saving lives. Only now ambulances are bringing us children and adults who …