At
least
31
people
have
been
killed
and
112
wounded
across
Ukraine
in
a
barrage
of
Russian
missile
attacks
–
the
deadliest
in
months.
A
missile
smashed
into
a
children’s
hospital
in
the
capital,
Kyiv,
on
Monday,
trapping
victims
under
rubble.
Dozens
of
volunteers,
doctors
and
rescue
workers
dug
through
debris
of
a
part
of
Okhmatdyt
National
Children’s
Specialised
Hospital
in
a
desperate
search
for
survivors
after
the
rare
daytime
bombardment.
Ukrainian
President
Volodymyr
Zelenskyy
said
Russian
forces
fired
more
than
40
missiles
at
five
cities,
mainly
in
the
south
and
east
of
the
country
as
well
as
Kyiv.
The
attacks
came
as
Zelenskyy
visited
Warsaw
before
heading
to
the
NATO
summit
in
Washington,
DC,
where
he
was
expected
to
appeal
for
more
military
support
from
the
country’s
allies.
Natalia
Svidler,
40,
was
in
the
hospital
at
the
time
of
the
strike
with
her
two-year-old
son
as
he
awaits
surgery
this
week.
“The
nurses
told
us
to
go
down
to
the
basement.
After
a
while,
we
heard
a
loud
rumble,
and
then
the
ceiling
in
the
basement
collapsed
a
little,”
she
told
the
AFP
news
agency
at
the
scene.
“Everyone
got
very
scared,
of
course.
Everyone
started
screaming
and
running,”
she
said.
Ukrainian
energy
operator
DTEK
said
three
electrical
substations
had
been
destroyed
or
damaged
in
the
attack,
the
latest
in
a
series
of
strikes
that
have
halved
the
country’s
energy
generation
capacity
in
recent
months.
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.
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