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These images and video show how a Kyiv children’s hospital was hit by a missile strike on Monday (8July2024), causing multiple casualties.

The Okhmatdyt hospital is Ukraine's largest children's medical centre.
Heavy blasts were reported across Ukraine’s capital late on Monday morning - with a strike on the children’s hospital creating harrowing scenes as locals and emergency services looked to help victims from the rubble.
Although casualty figures were still being established, by Monday afternoon Ukraine's interior ministry reported at least 20 dead and around 50 others injured.
Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelensky, said in a statement that the hospital strike was one of 40 missile attacks across Ukraine.

“Russian terrorists again massively attacked Ukraine with missiles,” he wrote in a statement. “Different cities: Kyiv, Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, Sloviansk, Kramatorsk. More than 40 missiles of different types. Residential buildings, infrastructure and a children's hospital were damaged.”

On the hospital strike he added: "Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital in Kyiv. One of the most important not only in Ukraine, but also in Europe exclusively CHILDREN'S hospital. "Okhmatdit" saved and restored health to thousands of children.

“Now the hospital has been damaged by a Russian attack, people are under the rubble, the exact number of wounded and dead is currently unknown. Now everyone helps to sort out the debris: doctors, ordinary people.

“Russia cannot help but know where its missiles are flying, and must fully answer for all its crimes: against people, against children, against humanity in general. It is very important that the world should not be silent about it now and that everyone should see what Russia is and what it is doing.”