{"id":269126,"date":"2024-07-15T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=269126"},"modified":"2024-07-11T05:08:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T04:08:20","slug":"as-ukraines-largest-childrens-hospital-is-hit-anger-towards-russia-rages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/07\/as-ukraines-largest-childrens-hospital-is-hit-anger-towards-russia-rages\/","title":{"rendered":"As Ukraine\u2019s Largest Children\u2019s Hospital Is Hit, Anger Towards Russia Rages"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Women hold children patients at Ukraine’s Okhmatdyt Hospital, damaged by Russian missile attacks on 8 Jul 2024.\u00a0 [Gleb Garanich\/Reuters]<\/p><\/div>\n

Moscow denies targeting the civilian site as its forces bombard cities across the country, killing more than 30 people.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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8 Jul 2024 – <\/em><\/span>Earth-shattering blasts shook Oleksandra\u2019s apartment building today morning, sending dagger-like shards of glass flying around.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Hours later, she is still shaking, but it is not the damage to her two-bedroom apartment that shocked her.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can always have the windows replaced,\u201d she told Al Jazeera, clutching a cigarette and sitting next to her elderly father on a bench near the building in central Kyiv.<\/p>\n

It was the damage done to Okhmatdyt, Ukraine\u2019s largest children\u2019s hospital<\/a>, a sprawling complex that is just metres away from her apartment.<\/p>\n

Thousands of children, including those with cancer, undergo treatment at the hospital every year.<\/p>\n

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A Ukrainian firefighter works to extinguish a fire in a residential building after a huge attack in Kyiv on July 8, 2024 [Anatolii Stepanov\/AFP]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A Russian hypersonic missile struck the complex on Monday morning, hitting a two-storey toxicology department where children undergo dialysis, officials said.<\/p>\n

The building\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am feeling so down,\u201d Oleksandra said, pointing at the hospital, which was still surrounded by a cloud of dust as bulldozers removed the debris.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey saved my son there two years ago, and now I see this,\u201d she said as dozens of volunteers rushed around, handing out bottled water, food and fruit to the children from pick-up trucks and buses.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are children, just little ones. We see them every day. Some have cancer,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The hospital attack was part of a Russian barrage.<\/p>\n