Dozens killed in Ukraine as Russian strikes hit children's hospital
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In Zelenskyy’s hometown, Kryvyi Rih, which has been repeatedly targeted by Russian bombardment, the strikes killed at least 10 people and wounded more than 40, officials said. There was no immediate comment on the strikes from the Kremlin, but it insists its forces do not target civilian infrastructure. Two people died when the Ohmatdyt Children's Hospital - Ukraine's biggest paediatrics facility - sustained major damage during the blast. Thirty-six people were killed and 140 people were injured in the strikes, President Volodymyr Zelensky's chief of staff Andriy Yermak said on Monday. Russia denied targeting the hospital, saying it had been hit by fragments of a Ukrainian air defence missile, while Ukraine said it had found remnants of a Russian cruise missile. Lesia Lysytsia, a doctor at the hospital, told the BBC the moment the missile struck had been "like in a film" with a "big light, then an awful sound". "One part of the hospital was destroyed and there was a fire in another.
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