UN Security Council Schedules Meeting in Connection with Strike on Kyiv. US, UK, France, Slovenia and Ecuador Request Meeting

The UN Security Council has scheduled a meeting for the morning of July 9 in connection with the Russian attack on Kiev, Reuters reports , citing diplomats.

The meeting was requested by the United States, Great Britain, France, Slovenia and Ecuador. The UK's permanent representative to the UN, Barbara Woodward, wrote that "we condemn Russia's cowardly attack" on the hospital in Kiev.

The Russian strike was also condemned by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who called the attack on a children's hospital and a medical centre in another part of Kyiv "particularly shocking".

The European Union responded to the Russian attack by saying that hospitals enjoy special protection under international humanitarian law. "By attacking Okhmatdet, a symbol of Ukrainian children's medicine and childhood cancer treatment, and by attacking children who are the most vulnerable, Russia once again demonstrates its cruelty and its complete insincerity regarding peace and peace negotiations," the statement said .

First Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN Dmitry Polyansky stated that at the meeting the Russian side plans to “familiarize colleagues with facts that absolutely do not confirm the Ukrainian and Western version of this incident.”

• On July 8, Russian troops launched strikes in several regions of Ukraine, including Kyiv, where a missile hit the building of the Okhmatdet Children's Hospital. Ukrainian Health Minister Viktor Lyashko reported that the missile hit the building where children were undergoing dialysis. Krivoy Rog, Dnipro, and several other towns were also shelled. According to the latest data, 27 people, including three children, were killed and 82 were injured in the strike on Kyiv. Another 11 people were killed in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
• The Russian Defense Ministry said it had struck Ukrainian military industry facilities and Ukrainian air force bases in response to "attempts by the Kiev regime to damage Russian energy and economic facilities." The ministry claims that the goals of the Russian strike were achieved, and the destruction in Kiev is explained by the fall of a Ukrainian air defense missile.
• The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine has classified the Russian shelling as a war crime, and the head of the department, Andrei Kostin, said that all information and evidence of the attack on Kiev and other cities will be sent to the office of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.