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The UN considers that there is a "strong probability" that the children's hospital in Kyiv was hit by a "direct hit" from a Russian missile, according to the representative of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Ukraine, who speaks remotly during a UN press briefing in Geneva. SOUNDBITE
People scramble to douse a fire and clear rubble at Kyiv's Okhmatdyt children's hospital after it was hit in a rare daytime Russian barrage on cities across Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelensky said that there were an unknown number of people trapped under the rubble of the hospital and it was not immediately clear how many had been killed. IMAGES
The United States denounces a strike on a children's hospital in Kyiv. Russia unleashed "another savage missile attack" on civilians, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Russia launched an air attack on Kyiv early Thursday, killing at least three people including two children and bringing fresh terror to the city after a week of strikes. IMAGES
Images show a Ukrainian air defence system working during a strike on Kyiv overnight. Ukraine said on Tuesday that it had downed an entire barrage of Russian drones and missiles, including six hypersonic missiles, just hours ahead of a visit by a Chinese special envoy. Posting on Twitter, Defence Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said "another unbelievable success for the Ukrainian Air Forces! Last night, our sky defenders shot down SIX russian hypersonic Kinzhal missiles and 12 other missiles". The statement comes just over a week after Ukraine said it had downed its first Kinzhal hypersonic missile. IMAGES
Video showing the moment the house of Ziyad al-Salmy, an Islamic Jihad leader, is hit by an Israeli air strike in Gaza City. IMAGES