Now Putin Is Attacking Ukraine’s Biggest Children’s Hospital

Ukraine’s largest children’s medical center was pummeled by Russian missile attacks Monday, leaving sick children covered in blood in the aftermath of the attack.

On Telegram, footage from the Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital showed a young child drenched in blood and soot and held by a woman also covered in blood. A video on Telegram showed a partially collapsed wing of the hospital, with pieces of glass and spots of blood covering the floor. In another, the outside of a hospital building appeared to be left in ruins, with debris scattered and smoke filling the air.

Kyiv’s Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital was an early site of horrors during the war. When Russia’s army fought on the streets of the city, doctors at Okhmatdyt performed life-saving surgeries to patch up bullet wounds and shrapnel fragments for children in the capital city. In early 2023, The Daily Beast wrote a story from Okhmatdyt, where doctors relieved the appalling incidents they have experienced throughout the war, including removing massive shards from a 13-year-old boy’s legs and stitching multiple children’s faces after being injured in missile shelling.

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