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The United Nations organization says that the Okhmatdyt children’s hospital in Kyiv suffered a direct nissile hit, denying Russian propaganda about debris damaging the facility due to work of Ukrainian air defence.
That’s according to Reuters.
“Analysis of the video footage and an assessment made at the incident site indicates a high likelihood that the children’s hospital suffered a direct hit rather than receiving damage due to an intercepted weapon system,” stated Danielle Bell, head of the mission for the U.N. Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine,
Traditionally, the UN team that visited the site just after the attack hesitated to say Russia was a perpetrator but suggested that the missile must have been launched by Russia.
Bell also said that the staff of the hospital took care of little patients and prevented heavy casualties.
“Staff had moved the children to a bunker yesterday morning when the air raid sirens first went off otherwise the casualties would have been much higher,” she said.
Previously, the Russian Ministry of Defence made a statement that the Okhmatdyt children’s hospital was damaged due with debris, caused by Ukrainian air defence. The message has been spreading all over media through ‘outstanding’ Russian propagandists. However, a high-quality footage of a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile flying directly into Ukraine’s largest children hospital was found both by Ukrainian and Western journalists.
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