UN Security Council to convene over Russian attack on Kyiv children's hospital

The UN meeting will take place on Tuesday at the request of the United Kingdom, France, Ecuador, Slovenia, and the United States, according to diplomatic sources from Reuters.

UN Security Council to address Russian shelling of Kyiv children's hospital, July 8th 2024.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that Ukraine had called for an emergency session. Zelensky emphasized the need to hold Russia and Putin accountable for acts of terror, especially in the context of attacks on civilian buildings.

After world leaders and politicians from various countries, including Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski, condemned Russia's attack on a Ukrainian children's hospital, the British ambassador to the UN, Barbara Woodward, also criticized the "cowardly and disgraceful attack" on platform X.

The children of Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital gave me this last year. It hangs in my office.

We will call out Russia's cowardly and depraved attack on the hospital last night in the Security Council.
⁰As @DavidLammy said: we will hold those responsible for this war to account. pic.twitter.com/pW2NuvWRoH

— Ambassador Barbara Woodward (@BWoodward_UN) July 8, 2024

Monday's Russian attacks resulted in the deaths of 36 people, 22 of whom were killed in Kyiv, according to Ukrinform. In Kyiv, a Russian missile struck the country's largest children's hospital, Ochmatdyt, killing two staff members and injuring 16, including seven children. Patients had to be evacuated. Fatalities were also reported in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipro, and Pokrovsk.

Source: PAP/Reuters

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