Russia’s heaviest bombardment of Kyiv in four months hits children’s hospital

Rescuers search for victims after a Russian missile hit the country’s main children hospital Okhmadit in Kyiv, Ukraine (AP Photo/Anton Shtuka)

Russian missiles blasted cities across Ukraine on Monday, damaging the country’s largest children’s hospital and other buildings in a fierce assault that interrupted heart surgeries and forced young cancer patients to take their treatments outdoors. At least 31 people were killed, officials said.

The daytime barrage targeted five Ukrainian cities with more than 40 missiles of different types, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on social media.