Russia has targeted Ukrainian medical facilities since the first days of the war, a pattern outlined by a range of international rights organizations. The bombing of a maternity hospital in Mariupol in the weeks after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine was an early indication of Moscow’s brutal tactics.

As of this April, the World Health Organization said it had verified around 1,682 direct attacks on medical facilities using heavy weapons, resulting in 128 deaths and 288 injuries of staff members and patients.

Around the same time that the children’s hospital was hit on Monday, debris from another Russian missile crashed into the Isida maternity hospital and a neighboring private clinic elsewhere in Kyiv. Nine people were killed in that strike, including two children.

Another two children — Maksym Symaniuk, 10, and his 9-year-old sister Nastia — were also killed by falling missile debris at their home on Monday, according to the Ukrainian Karate Federation.

On Tuesday, Volodymyr Zhovnir, director of Ohmatdyt Children’s Hospital, delivered testimony about the strike at an emergency meeting at the United Nations Security Council.

“Both children and adults screamed and cried from fear and the wounded from pain,” he said. “It was a real hell.”

Glory to Ukraine!