Russia’s Bombing of Children’s Hospital at Kyiv Backfiring on Kremlin, Stiffening Resolve of Ukraine and Its Allies

The United Nations Security Council is to hold today an emergency session in response.

Maxym Marusenko/NurPhoto via AP
Aftermath of the bombing of Ohmatdyt Children's Hospital at Kyiv, July 8, 2024. Maxym Marusenko/NurPhoto via AP

Russia’s bombing of Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital is backfiring. Monday’s destruction of Okhmatdyt hospital at Kyiv, the nation’s press capital, immediately produced a stream of photos into the world’s press: child cancer patients waiting for transfers to a new hospital, their bottle drips by their sides, and mothers using napkins to protect their newborns from cement dust.

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