Ukraine hospital attack – and how the world reacts
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
The Okhmatdyt hospital treats 20,000 people a year. A two-storey wing helping children with cancer was destroyed in the attack.
It's the deadliest airstrike in Ukraine for months - on the eve of a NATO summit and as China and Belarus start military exercises near the Polish border - what reaction can we expect?
Niall Paterson is joined by Jimmy Rushton, a Kyiv-based journalist and defence analyst, to hear more about the damage and the reaction from those in Ukraine's capital. Plus, he speaks to our defence and security editor Deborah Haynes.
For further background from Sky News, you can read more of Deborah’s analysis here, and our Moscow correspondent Ivor Bennet’s on Putin’s power play here.
Producer: Rosie Gillott
Editor: Paul Stanworth
Promotions producer: Jada Kai Meosa-John
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| 1:04.2 | On Monday, an explosion tore through Ukraine's largest children's hospital situated in the heart of Kiev. |
| 1:15.4 | Its intensive care unit, cancer department and operating theatres were all damaged. |
| 1:21.2 | Officials reporting that debris fell into heart patients' open chests during surgery. |
| 1:28.5 | The missile strike on Ahmedidodyd, in essence Ukraine's Great Ormond Street Hospital, |
| 1:34.1 | was part of a broader Russian strike which killed more than 40 and injured hundreds across the |
| 1:39.6 | country. As bodies were being pulled from the rubble, world leaders were preparing to meet at a NATO summit. |
| 1:46.4 | An emergency session of the UN Security Council has been called. |
| 1:50.5 | For his part, President Zelensky has reiterated his pleas for more air defence systems |
| 1:55.1 | and for more weapons with which he can strike targets inside Russian territory. |
| 2:02.8 | I'm Neil Patterson. |
| 2:04.4 | Welcome to the Sky News Daily. |
| 2:07.8 | Well, later on, we are going to be speaking to Sky's defence editor |
| 2:11.0 | about the international response to, well, just the latest bloody day in Ukraine. |
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