Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service coming to you live from

London I'm Julia Morica. Not for the first time since the Russian invasion of Ukraine more than two years ago,

there's an urgent scrutiny of Ukraine's international allies and the length they're going to

to try and ease the situation on the ground. That urgency has grown following

the bombing of a children's hospital in Kyiv by a Russian missile, an attack

the city's mayor said was among the worst since the beginning of the war and you'll hear from

someone caught up in that attack in a moment. Support for Ukraine will dominate

the agenda of day two of the NATO summit in Washington with leaders saying they would never recognize Russia's

annexations including of Crimea. President Biden stressed that Ukraine would

win the war against Russia and he announced that Washington and its allies would provide

Ukraine with additional air defense systems.

Today I'm announcing the historic donation of air defense equipment. The United States, Germany and Italy will provide

Ukraine with the equipment for five additional At a separate event in Washington, Ukraine's President Zelensky welcomed the additional

defense systems but said they were not enough. Alluding to the possible election of Donald

Trump to the US presidency, Mr Zelensky warned that President Putin

was also waiting for that possibility in November. He appealed to the US not to

wait, but to do more now. It's time to step out of the shadows, to make strong decisions work,

to act and not to wait for November or any other months to this end.

We must be strong and uncompromising altogether.

And first of all, America, and first of all,

the leaders of America and the President of the United States

as a leader of the free world to be uncompromising in defending democracy, uncompromising against Putin. compromising in terror. Well, two people were killed when the Children's Hospital in Kiev was hit on Monday.

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