The Ministry of Internal Affairs has updated data on those killed in Russian strikes; Biden announced the transfer of five air defense systems to Ukraine. Athletistic highlights yesterday’s key events.
The death toll in Ukraine as a result of a Russian missile attack on July 8 has reached 42. Among the dead were four children, the National Police said. In addition, in the last 24 hours, 190 people were injured and 323 objects were damaged due to the massive shelling. So, as a result of the attack on the Okhmatdyt hospital in Kyiv, two elderly people were killed: a doctor and a visitor to the medical facility. Another 30 were injured, 10 of them children. The death toll as a result of the attack on a residential building in Kyiv’s Shevchenkovsky district also rose to 11. The Ministry of Internal Affairs also reported the completion of emergency rescue operations in Okhmatdyt.
At the opening of the NATO summit, US President Joe Biden announced the “historic” transfer of five additional strategic air defense systems from the US and partners to Ukraine. It is four Patriot batteries and a SAMP-T system. Also in the coming months, the United States and partners intend to provide Ukraine with dozens of tactical air defense systems and hundreds of additional interceptors next year. In total, the partners pledged to allocate more than $1 billion in support of Ukrainian air defense.
There is a “high probability” that a children’s hospital in Kyiv suffered a “direct hit” from a Russian missile. The head of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, Danielle Bellew, said this on Tuesday, July 9. “The analysis of video footage and assessments conducted at the scene of the incident indicate a high probability that the hospital of children received a direct hit instead of being destroyed by an anti-aircraft system,” he said at a press briefing in Geneva. According to him, at the time of the strike there were about 670 children and about 1,000 employees in the institution.
The aggressor country Russia is not allegedly attacking civilian targets in Ukraine. This statement was made by Kremlin Speaker Dmitry Peskov, who commented on the missile attack on the Okhmatdyt children’s hospital in Kyiv. “I encourage you to be guided by the statement of the Russian Ministry of Defense, which completely excludes that there are attacks on any civilian targets it is mentioned there that we are talking about the downing of an anti-missile,” said Peskov .
The latest Russian missile attack on Kyiv indicates that the war in Ukraine has reached a new level. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban wrote this on the social network X. He called yesterday’s attack in Kyiv a “tragic and evil attack,” but he did not condemn Russia. Orban called the missile strike evidence that his “fears are justified.” According to Orban, “the increase in the intensity of the war is a call for world powers to abandon their military policies against the backdrop of creating a peaceful policy that will bring Russia and Ukraine to a ceasefire and peace negotiations .”
The death of innocent children is painful and horrible. This statement was made by the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi during a meeting with Vladimir Putin. The Indian prime minister’s statement was a veiled rebuke to Putin, who welcomed Modi to the Kremlin with a speech about the importance of strategic ties between India and Russia. The Prime Minister of India said that regardless of whether it is a war, conflict or a terrorist attack, it hurts anyone when there are casualties. “But when innocent children are killed, the heart bleeds, and this pain is terrible,” assured the head of the Indian government. He also called for finding a “way to peace.”
The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, Jan Lipovsky, through the ambassador, told the Russians that they are “garbage of humanity” because they are bombing children’s hospitals. “Murderers who attack children in hospitals are the scum of humanity, he was ordered to deliver them to Moscow,” the minister said. Zmeevsky, after being called to the Czech Foreign Ministry, repeated that “it is not a Russian missile, it is a Ukrainian missile,” and the meeting of the ministry took place “as usual.”
The Ukrainian state will completely rebuild the Okhmatdyt children’s hospital in Kyiv. The work has begun. Prime Minister Denis Shmyhal said this at a government meeting. According to him, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Economy and the Ministry of Finance immediately after the tragedy were instructed to work on the issue of allocating funds for the restoration and assistance to the victims. “Today we are allocating UAH 100 million from the state budget reserve fund for priority restoration work in Okhmatdyt, we will further increase funding,” the prime minister said.
Meanwhile, Taiwan announced that it will transfer 200 thousand dollars to Kyiv to buy basic necessities for Okhmatdyt. This was reported by the Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The department responded to the Russian missile attack on Okhmatdyt and emphasized that it “strongly condemns the Russian Federation’s brutal attack on hospitals and killing of children.”
In the regions of Ukraine, the amount of restrictions on electricity consumption was reduced on Tuesday. In the evening hours and until the end of the day, the volume restrictions are reduced due to emergency supplies from the EU. On Wednesday, in the regions of Ukraine, blackout schedules will be applied throughout the day. “From 1:00 to 6:00 and from 10:00 to 13:00 regional electricity companies will use two closing queues. In the remaining hours, three queues will be used,” the message said.
Source: korrespondent
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