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"Kyiv, Ukraine – Earth-shattering blasts shook Oleksandra’s apartment building
on Monday morning, sending dagger-like shards of glass flying around.
Hours later, she is still shaking, but it is not the damage to her two-bedroom
apartment that shocked her.
“We can always have the windows replaced,” she told
Al Jazeera, clutching a
cigarette and sitting next to her elderly father on a bench near the building
in central Kyiv.
It was the damage done to Okhmatdyt, Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital, a
sprawling complex that is just metres away from her apartment.
Thousands of children, including those with cancer, undergo treatment at the
hospital every year.
A Russian hypersonic missile struck the complex on Monday morning, hitting a
two-storey toxicology department where children undergo dialysis, officials
said.
The building’s roof collapsed, killing at least two hospital workers. One
victim is understood to have been a doctor. At least 16 people were wounded,
including seven children, officials said.
“I am feeling so down,” Oleksandra said, pointing at the hospital, which was
still surrounded by a cloud of dust as bulldozers removed the debris.
“They saved my son there two years ago, and now I see this,” she said as dozens
of volunteers rushed around, handing out bottled water, food and fruit to the
children from pick-up trucks and buses.
“They are children, just little ones. We see them every day. Some have cancer,”
she said."
Via Susan ****
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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