The Russian Armed Forces launched an artillery strike on a children's hospital in Kherson: many injured (video)

At the same time, the Kherson Regional Prosecutor's Office reported that there were more injured children. The children's hospital was shelled by the enemy from artillery around 09:20, when there were small patients, their parents and medical staff. "As a result of the shelling, according to preliminary data, 9 people were injured, among them four children and three medical workers. The information on the number of victims is being clarified.

The hospital building was significantly destroyed, the blast wave damaged the adjacent buildings," the prosecutor's office reported. Inna Kholodniak, director of the Kherson Regional Children's Clinical Hospital, reported that the ultrasound diagnostics department was damaged, and the condition of one of the employees is serious.

The video shows that the windows of the children's hospital were blown out, offices and medical equipment were covered with debris, and there were drops of blood on the floor. Under the procedural leadership of the Kherson District Prosecutor's Office, a pre-trial investigation into the fact of a war crime was initiated (Part 1 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

Prosecutors, together with investigators, record the consequences of the shelling, collect evidence of yet another war crime of the Russian Federation. The prosecutor's office notes that shelling of civilian objects, in particular health care facilities, is a gross violation of international humanitarian law. We will remind, on the night of October 29, the Russians attacked a number of regions of Ukraine. A whole city was left without electricity in Odesa.