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Hello and welcome to News Hour with James Kimaruis Army in Paris and me James Menendez

in London and we will be heading to France in just a few minutes to

assess the rather messy political landscape there after Sunday's elections.

But before we do we're going to turn straight to what's happening in Ukraine because there has been a series of major Russian airstrikes on cities across the country today.

At least 20 people have been killed overall and a further 50 injured. But perhaps the most distressing aspect of these

latest attacks is that one of them hit the biggest children's hospital in the capital

Kieve. The pictures show at least one part of the building completely destroyed.

Sections of roof lying on heaps of rubble before staff and volunteers helped clear it away.

Some children are reported to be trapped. others are cowering outside, still hooked up to life-saving machines.

Dr Lesier Lesicke is an eye cancer doctor at the hospital.

I was inside in the hospital on the first floor exactly where we performed

examination of the patient. You see a big light and then awful sound then everything coming down and destroyed.

After that I put all patients and nurses who work with me also out of the hospital and see totally destroyed one part of the hospital,

fire in and out there, building and destroyed our hospital.

How much damage is there to the hospital, would you say?

Have you been able to get an idea of how much has been damaged?

It's very hard to analyze now because, as probably you know

one of the biggest hospitals in Ukraine and it's not the patient with the flu

here it's a heart patient in the in-U departments, blood marrow,

transplantation, organ transplantation, oncology, et cetera.

So now we are all involved in the process of evacuation patients

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