Russia launches deadly attack on Ukraine, hits children’s hospital in Kyiv
www.theglobeandmail.com
Massive daytime strikes hit multiple cities, damaging infrastructure and killing at least 20

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Hundreds of people rushed to clear debris at the hospital, where windows had been smashed and panels ripped off. Parents holding babies walked in the street outside, dazed and sobbing after the rare daylight aerial attack.

“It was scary. I couldn’t breathe, I was trying to cover (my baby). I was trying to cover him with this cloth so that he could breathe,” Svitlana Kravchenko, 33, said.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia fired more than 40 missiles, damaging residential and commercial buildings and infrastructure in Kyiv, his home city of Kryvyi Rih, the central city of Dnipro and two eastern cities.

Ten people were killed and 35 wounded in the main wave of attacks on Kyiv, authorities said. Some two hours later, debris from another missile attack hit a different hospital in Kyiv, killing four more and injuring three more, the emergency services said.

Moscow has repeatedly denied targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure, although its attacks have killed thousands of civilians since it launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.

  • SteevyT@beehaw.org
    5·
    4 months ago

    Also, Russia is a nuclear power. There is likely a line where Putin will respond with nuclear bombardment. The trick is, where is that line?

    • its_me_xiphos@beehaw.org
      6·
      4 months ago

      The honest answer is no one knows. The line is subject to change. My opinion is foreign troops threatening Russia.

      Hypothetical (I hope for now and forever) If, say, France actually put soldiers in Ukraine Russia would do all sorts of shenanigans short of nuking anyone. If French and Ukrainian troops entered Russia, then we’d see tactical nukes used on Ukrainian soil for certain.

      • SteevyT@beehaw.org
        4·
        4 months ago

        Would that be Russia the proper agreed upon boundaries by most of the world, Russia including currently occupied areas of Ukraine, or Russia by historic boundaries which would include all of Ukraine?

        Also, are you answering as if it’s a Monday morning, or a Thursday afternoon?

        I think we are on the same side of the argument, I’m just going down a rabbit hole of “how do you even begin to predict where Putin just flips the damn table?”