Kyiv said a Russian Kh-101 missile destroyed part of Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital as Ukraine's air defense capabilities are likely a focus of NATO's summit.
Russia's missile barrage across Ukraine on Monday shows how urgently NATO members must back giving Kyiv more air defense capabilities, a board member of the children's hospital that was among the sites struck has told Newsweek.The comments by Ukrainian lawmaker Mariya Ionova at the start of NATO's 75th-anniversary summit echo calls Kyiv has been making for months for more help from the alliance and other countries to thwart Russian missiles and drones.
I don't know where there are red lines in this brutality and terror because it was on purpose,' said Ionova, a member of Ukraine's European Solidarity party.Newsweek reached out to the Russian Defense Ministry and the Kremlin for comment.The Kremlin has repeated its denials since the start of the war, insisting that it does not target civilian infrastructure. Moscow said the hospital had been hit by fragments of a Ukrainian air defense missile.
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