A hospital for children in the city of Kyiv is one of the sites struck by Russia
Russian strikes in Kiev and elsewhere: “Russia strikes a children’s hospital in Kyiv and other sites across Ukraine,” says nesthesiologist Khrystyna Korvach
At least 22 people, including two children, were killed in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, and another 82 injured, according to the Kyiv City Military Administration. There were more casualties in central and eastern Ukrainian cities.
Khrystyna Korvach, one of the nesthesiologists at the Okhmatdyt children’s hospital, told NPR that they thought this could not happen here. It did not turn out that way. Why? Because Russia wants to kill us all.”
The Russian military used fast- moving missiles during the attacks, which took place a day before the NATO summit in D.C.
President Zelenskyy called for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council, and said that Putin must be held accountable.
Monday’s attacks have added an urgency to Tuesday’s NATO summit, where the security alliance’s 75th anniversary will also be marked. NATO leaders are expected to rebuff Ukraine’s membership bid but U.S. officials say they will offer more air defense systems to help Ukraine fend off near-daily Russian strikes.
Source: Russia strikes a children’s hospital in Kyiv and other sites across Ukraine
The Okhmatdyt Hospital: The Dog on a Chain: Why the United States Shouldn’t Leave Ukraine Until It Wins the War
The strike on the Okhmatdyt hospital, one of Ukraine’s largest treatment centers for children with cancer, drew international outrage. The toxicology ward and other parts of the hospital were destroyed. Rescue workers said people were trapped under the rubble. Zelenskyy posted a video to social media showing dazed bystanders trying to clear the ruins. The patient rooms had windows that had been blown out.
Korvach, the anesthesiologist, described chaotic scenes of trying to evacuate injured staff and terrified young patients, some of whom were on ventilators.
She said that everything flew toward the doctors and children. After the doctors finished in the operating rooms, they went into the corridors filled with smoke. The children were aware of what was happening.
The NATO alliance calls itself one of the strongest, most advanced alliances in the world, but they do not act quickly, as claimed by an animal rights activist. They are like a dog on a chain that barks.
Billions of dollars in military aid for Ukraine has been given by the US and other NATO countries. A senior U.S. official told NPR that the U.S. is set to give more air defense systems to Ukraine at this week’s summit and also provide a longer-term commitment to security needs. The official did not want to brief reporters before the administration announces new weapons for Ukraine.
He said he is frustrated that the U.S. thinks that Ukraine should not join NATO until it wins the war.
NPR’s Joanna Kakissis reported from Lviv. Kateryna Malofieieva and Polina Lytvynova reported from Kyiv. Tom was in Washington to contribute to the report.
Did America start war in 1914? Donald Tusk is right about Ukraine, and if it does, what did we learn in Brussels, Brussels, Sarajevo?
Some believe that we are on the eve of a wider war, experiencing an equivalent of something that happened 100 years ago. This is the view from Sarajevo. The war began when a young assassin shot at the vehicle of Archduke Ludwig Ferdinand in the summer of 1914. The historian Christopher Clark has called the political class of the time “sleepwalkers.” They entered war because of a mix of emotions: offended honor and recklessness.
Mr. Tusk, a former president of the European Council, could perhaps be accused of Eurocentrism. He’s correct that we aren’t in a traditional war. There are other conflicts playing out but the ones in Ukraine have the highest chance of becoming a full-blown world war. For NATO members gathered this week in Washington, working out how to stop that from happening will be at the top of the agenda.
“I know it sounds devastating,” Poland’s prime minister, Donald Tusk, said earlier this year. A new era has begun, and we have to get used to it. Fresh from ousting national populists from power, Mr. Tusk is widely respected. Yet his words may come as a surprise. Since the war in Palestine, Russia’s aggression inUkraine, and the conflict in Sudan, can we still say there was a prewar era?
At least 20 people were killed and 82 others were injured after a Russian fighter jet bombed a children’s hospital in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv on Monday, the country’s military said. It added that the strike was an “act of terror” against civilians. The Russian military said that it had conducted an airstrike on a target in Ukraine’s Mykolaiv region.