The war in Ukraine. Digest 10

A cruise missile was shot down over Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital in Kyiv. The shelling damaged the windows and almost broke out the doors. The hospital's press service reports that doctors continue doing surgeries, performing dialysis and maintaining patriotic spirit. Due to constant shelling of Russian occupiers last night, two seriously injured children could not be brought to the hospital. They died.

2 people killed and many wounded. Today, Russian occupiers fired on residential buildings in the city of Kramatorsk. A number of houses on Kramatorsky Boulevard were hit.
Police and doctors are currently on spot. Experts have not yet established the kind of weapon used. Presumably, it was a cruise missile. Kramatorsk Mayor Oleksandr Honcharenko called on the international community to close the skies over Ukraine.

34 hospitals in Ukraine have already been shut down because of Russian shelling.
Viktor Lyashko, Minister of Health of Ukraine has stated that some buildings are completely destroyed and some are left without water and electricity.
He has also stressed that this is another violation of the Geneva Convention, as medical workers and hospitals should not be involved in military conflicts.
Because of the shelling, doctors are unable to provide adults or children with medical aid on time. Since the invasion of the occupiers in Ukraine, 38 children died and 71 have been injured.

Shots at a peaceful protest. In the city of Nova Kakhovka, the occupiers dispersed people carrying flags with machine gun bursts. But despite the risk of death, people in the temporarily occupied Ukrainian cities go to peaceful rallies and demonstrations. In three other cities in Kherson oblast: Henichesk, Kakhovka, and Novooleksiyivka, thousands of people with posters and flags came out to show Russian soldiers that no one had called them to Ukraine. In Novooleksiyivka among protesters there were many Crimean Tatars who demanded that Russians leave the Crimean peninsula, the Tatars’ homeland.

More than 140,000 Ukrainians have returned from abroad since the Russian invasion began. Eighty percent of them are men who are ready to defend their homeland. At the same time, more than 1.5 million refugees have already crossed Ukraine's borders. People are fleeing from Russian soldiers and shelling of peaceful cities.