5 buildings of Okhmatdyt children’s hospital damaged, evacuation of patients continues - Health Ministry head

As a result of the missile attack on July 8, 5 buildings of the Okhmatdyt children’s hospital were damaged, the evacuation of patients continues.

This was announced by the head of the Ministry of Health, Viktor Liashko.

"The key task is to evacuate the building, which was also affected, where oncology, traumatology, surgery, and hematology were located. We are taking the children to other hospitals in stages, since there is no light, oxygen, or water supply in Okhmatdyt. Our task is to minimize the potential negative consequences for those, who was undergoing treatment," Liashko said.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported that people are under rubble in the Okhmatdyt children's hospital in Kyiv, which was damaged by russian missile attack on July 8, and the exact number of injured and killed is currently unknown. He emphasized that it is very important that the world is not silent about it now.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, on the morning of July 8, air defense was operating in Kyiv due to a massive missile attack by the aggressor state. Falling debris was recorded in 7 districts: in Solomyanskyi, Dniprovskyi, Darnytskyi, Desnianskyi, Shevchenkivskyi, Holosiyivskyi, and Sviatoshynskyi districts. Children's hospital Okhmatdyt, houses, an enterprise, an office building were damaged.

In Kyiv, the Okhmatdyt children's hospital was damaged by russian shelling.

The number of people killed as a result of the russian missile attack on the city of Kyiv on the morning of July 8 has increased to 7.