Look at these images behind me here,
folks. That is Ukraine where rescuers are still searching through
that rubble of a Children's Hospital after Russian missiles hit
that hospital.
And that was the first Russian attack in Kiev in
months.
The country's largest Children's Hospital was among those buildings hit.
The attack interrupted heart surgeries and child cancer patients were
forced to continue their treatment outdoors.
Russia denies that it struck the hospital,
claiming it was hit by Ukrainian anti missile fire.
James Waterhouse with. At the BBC News has more from
Kiev.
Even for this battle hardened capital city,
there's a real sense of bruising this morning.
The rescue effort is continuing not just on that Children's
Hospital where the care and treatment of those patients has
been disrupted in such a way,
but also in several residential areas after apartment blocks were
hit too.
And the damage looks particularly severe there.
And you can be sure that more bodies will be
found from under.
The rubble people do get used to Russia's aggression,
but occasionally there is a strike that does stand out.
And politically, what's interesting is that President Zelensky and other
senior ministers are looking to leverage what happened yesterday.
They are hoping, they say,
that other NATO members ahead of a planned summit in
Washington today would have seen that devastation,
would have seen the ease at which those Russian missiles
landed on targets in the in the heart of the
city,
which does raise questions about.
Ukraine's own air defenses, he hopes they will see that
and want to step up in their support for Ukraine.
And while these attacks do little to influence the battlefield,
they are designed to terrorise the population.
And I don't think in cities like Kiev especially,
you will see that resolve,
that desire to withstand Russia's invasion.
But of course, in this war of attrition,
that may well fall out of their control because Russia
is continuing to erode territory in the east.
It's been stabilized in other.
Is by Ukrainian forces, but if you have missiles raining
down once more or cities like Kiev,
they become all the more uninhabitable.
But thus far they have done little to suppress people's
appetite to fight Russia back.
But of course, Russia is saying we are nowhere near
making any kind of compromise for peace.
We still want to take as much of Ukraine as
possible and they are being unrelenting,
really. In the in the tactics they deploy.