UN analysis of video footage of scene of deadly strike on Ohmatdyt children’s hospital suggests ‘high likelihood’ it took direct hit from Russian missile
The Ohmatdyt children’s hospital treats children with serious conditions, such as cancer and kidney disease, and had about 670 child patients and 1,000 staff at the time of the missile attack on Kyiv yesterday, Danielle Bell, the head of the UN’s human monitoring mission, said.
“Staff had moved the children to a bunker yesterday morning when the air raid sirens first went off otherwise the casualties would have been much higher,” she told a press briefing in Geneva via video link from Kyiv.
Analysis of the video footage and an assessment made at the incident site indicates a high likelihood that the children’s hospital suffered a direct hit rather than receiving damage due to an intercepted weapon system.