Rescue efforts continue at kyiv children's hospital attacked by Russia

Around 400 Ukrainian emergency services personnel are still working at the Okhmatdit children’s hospital in kyiv and other sites in the capital that were attacked by missiles launched by Russia on Monday, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday.

“In the places where the missiles hit, emergency and rescue work has not stopped all night,” the Ukrainian president wrote in a message on his social networks, confirming that the death toll from the attack on Kiev and the Dnipropetrovsk region in central Ukraine is now 38, 27 of whom died in the capital.

The number of injured, Zelensky said, has risen to 190 people, of which 64 are hospitalized in kyiv and 28 were admitted from Krivi Rig, the industrial city of Dnipropetrosvsk where ten people died.

The president also wrote that his administration continues to work “to strengthen the protection” of Ukrainian cities from Russian attacks. “There will be decisions. The world has the necessary strength for this,” added Zelensky, who arrived in Washington today to participate in the NATO summit.

Ukraine hopes to obtain new decisions from its partners at the summit, to identify enemy military targets within the territory of the Russian Federation and to be able to neutralize the source and preemptively attack Russian troops.

The United States and other allies continue to impose restrictions on the use of their weapons on Ukrainian territory for fear of a reaction from Moscow.

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