At least seven people were killed and 11 others were injured. in a Russian attack on Kyiv on Monday that also damaged a children’s hospital, local authorities said.

“Right now “The death of seven people has been confirmed,” the statement said. wrote the head of the Military Administration of the Kyiv region, Sergei Popko, in his Telegram channel.

In turn, the mayor of the capital, Vitaliy Klitschko, reported on the Kyiv City Administration channel that there are already at least 11 victims. Eight of them were hospitalized.

The politician explained that a Russian missile hit the patients at the children’s hospital andThey are evacuated to city hospitals.

President of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, Telegram noted that the Kiev children’s hospital Oimadit “It is one of the most important not only in Ukraine, but also in Europe.”

“Oimadit has saved and recovered “thousands of children,” he emphasized.

“Now the hospital has been damaged by the Russian attack, people are trapped under the rubble, and The exact number of wounded and dead is unknown. Now everyone is helping to clear away the rubble: both doctors and ordinary people,” he explained.

Zelensky stressed that Russia cannot claim that it does not know where its missiles are heading and must “bear full responsibility for all his crimes: against people, against children, against humanity as a whole.”

“It is very important that the world will no longer remain silent about this and that everyone sees what Russia is and what it does,” he insisted.

According to Popko, as a result of the missile strike on Kyiv Falling fragments were recorded in seven districts of the capital. which resulted in damage to an office building, garages, cars and a private home, as well as fires in residential buildings and company premises.

Besides the attack on Kyiv This Monday, Russia again launched missiles at other Ukrainian cities. such as Dnepr, Krivoy Rog in the central-eastern part of the country, as well as Solvyansk and Kramatorsk in the eastern part of Donetsk.