Gonzalo Zegarra
(CNN) — Russia attacked a major Ukrainian hospital used to treat wounded soldiers, killing at least five people, Ukrainian officials said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called the <a href="http://www.world-today-news.com/in-dnipro-near-the-bus-station-opel-knocked-down-a-woman-the-victim-was-taken-by-an-ambulance/" title="In Dnipro near the bus station Opel knocked down a woman: the victim was taken by an ambulance”>Mechnikov Hospital in the south-central city of Dnipro one of the “most important” in the country. Before the war, it treated up to 40,000 patients a year.
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Five people, including a child, were killed in the attacks overnight, Serhii Lysak, head of the Dnipro regional military administration, said on his official Telegram account.
The attack comes just days after Russian President Vladimir Putin faced calls from world leaders attending the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, to end the war in Ukraine.
Zelensky made a direct reference to this week’s summit in his statement posted on social media, saying that “after everything said in Kazan, Russian assassins have resumed business as usual.”
“This shows once again that aggression cannot be stopped with words alone, but only with decisive actions in defense of the state and the people against whom this war is waged,” the Ukrainian leader added.
At least 21 people were injured in the Dnipro attack, including a 17-year-old boy who is in “serious condition,” according to Lysak.
“As a result of the missile attack overnight, there is damage in several places in the city,” Lysak said, adding that one apartment building was destroyed and two dozen others damaged by the attack.
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Photos shared by Lysak showed rescuers working among huge piles of debris and the inside of what appeared to be a hospital room with shattered windows.
The city’s mayor, Borys Filatov, described a sleepless night spent as missiles descended on the city.
“This is not just a two-story building; “This is an ordinary residential building with eight apartments hit by a ballistic missile,” Filatov added.
Dnipro was not the only major Ukrainian city hit overnight. The capital, Kyiv, also experienced a drone attack, according to the head of the military administration, Serhii Popko.
A girl died after her apartment building in the Solomianskyi district was hit, Popko said. A woman in her 50s was also killed by the attacks in the Kyiv region, according to the regional military administration.
More than 100 people were evacuated from the same residential building in the city after what Popko said was the 16th airstrike on Kyiv this month alone.
The Ukrainian Air Force said Russia used a combination of “several types of missiles, Shahed-type attack drones and drones of unspecified type” to carry out attacks across the country.
Ukrainian air defenses managed to shoot down 44 of the 91 Russian drones, the Air Force said on Telegram. Three Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles launched by Crimea were also detected, according to the Air Force.
