ロシア軍のミサイル攻撃で37人死亡 小児病院で救助活動続く Russian Missile Strike Kills 37; Rescue Efforts Continue at Children's Hospital

現在、ある活動家たちの二重基準が照明され、解ってきます。

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ロシア軍のミサイル攻撃で37人死亡 小児病院で救助活動続く
2024年7月9日 12時03分 ウクライナ情勢
ウクライナではロシア軍によるミサイル攻撃でこれまでに37人が死亡し、攻撃を受けた首都キーウの小児病院では一部が大きく壊れ、現地では救助活動が夜通し続いています。

ウクライナでは8日、首都キーウや東部のドニプロペトロウシク州などに、ロシア軍によるおよそ40発のミサイル攻撃があり、ゼレンスキー大統領は、SNSでこれまでに子ども3人を含む37人が死亡し、170人がけがをしたと明らかにしました。

攻撃でキーウ中心部にある小児医療専門の病院も一部の建物が大きく壊れるなど被害が出ていてゼレンスキー大統領は「ロシアのミサイルは幼いがん患者を標的にウクライナで最も大きな小児病院を攻撃した」として強く非難しました。

アメリカのCNNテレビは、病院ではがんや血液疾患の治療を含め、年間およそ7000件の手術を行っていると伝えています。

キーウ当局によりますと、この病院ではこれまで2人が死亡し、50人以上がけがをしたということで現地からの映像では重機などを使ってがれきを取り除く様子が確認でき、救助活動が夜通し、続いています。

また、キーウでは別の産科の病院も被害を受け、少なくとも7人が死亡したと伝えられています。

アメリカのバイデン大統領は8日、SNSで「ロシアの残虐性を思い起こさせるものだ」としたうえで、9日からワシントンで開かれるNATO＝北大西洋条約機構の首脳会議でゼレンスキー大統領に対しウクライナへの支援は揺るぎないものだと明確にするとしています。

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20240709/k10014506041000.html

Russia fires dozens of missiles across Ukraine, two killed at children’s hospital in Kyiv
08/07/2024
Russia blasted the main children’s hospital in Kyiv with a missile in broad daylight on Monday and rained missiles down on other cities across Ukraine, killing at least 41 civilians in the deadliest wave of air strikes for months.
Parents holding babies walked in the street outside the hospital, dazed and sobbing after the rare daylight aerial attack. Windows had been smashed and panels ripped off, and hundreds of Kyiv residents were helping to clear debris.
“It was scary. I couldn’t breathe, I was trying to cover (my baby). I was trying to cover him with this cloth so that he could breathe,” Svitlana Kravchenko, 33, told Reuters.
The government proclaimed a day of mourning on Tuesday for one of the worst air attacks of the war, which it said demonstrated that Ukraine urgently needs an upgrade of its air defences from its Western allies.
Air defences shot down 30 of 38 missiles, the air force said. Fifty civilian buildings, including residential houses, a business centre and two medical facilities were damaged in Kyiv, the central cities of Kryvyi Rih and Dnipro and two eastern cities, the interior minister said.
An online video obtained by Reuters showed a missile falling from the sky towards the children’s hospital followed by a large explosion. The location of the video was verified from visible landmarks.
The Security Service of Ukraine identified the missile as an Kh-101 cruise missile.
Twenty-two people, including two children, were killed in Kyiv and 82 more were wounded in the main missile volley and another strike that came two hours later, officials said.
Ten were confirmed dead in the Dnipropetrovsk region and 64 were wounded, regional officials said. Three people were killed in the eastern town of Pokrovsk where missiles hit an industrial facility, the governor said.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine would retaliate and called on Kyiv’s Western allies to give a firm response to the attack.
“We will retaliate against these people, we will deliver a powerful response from our side to Russia, for sure. The question to our partners is: can they respond?” Zelenskiy, who is visiting Poland said during a joint press conference with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
Diplomats said the United Nations Security Council would meet on Tuesday at the request of Britain, France, Ecuador, Slovenia and the United States.
The Russian Defence Ministry said its forces had carried out strikes on defence industry targets and aviation bases in Ukraine.
Moscow has repeatedly denied targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure, although its attacks have killed thousands of civilians since it launched its invasion in February 2022.
Ukraine’s Prosecutor General said he discussed the attacks with International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan, adding that his office would be sharing evidence with the ICC.
Security commitments 
The attack came a day before leaders of NATO countries were due to begin a three-day summit of the military alliance that Zelenskiy is expected to attend, with the war in Ukraine one of the focuses.
“This callous aggression – a total disregard for human life, jeopardizing European & Transatlantic security – is why leaders will make significant security commitments to Ukraine this week,” the U.S. ambassador to Kyiv, Bridget Brink, posted on X. Ukraine’s Defence Minister Rustem Umerov said Ukraine still lacked enough air defences and urged Kyiv’s allies to supply more systems promptly to help protect its cities and infrastructure from regular Russian aerial attacks. 
Air Force representative Colonel Yuri Ignat said it became more difficult to repel Russian attacks as Moscow’s forces kept enhancing their bombardment tactics.
“Enemy missiles are equipped with additional means, including radar and thermal traps,” Ignat wrote on Facebook.
The missiles flew at extremely low altitudes during Monday’s attacks, he said. 
DTEK, the largest private power producer, said three electricity substations and networks had been damaged in Kyiv.
The power system has already sustained so much damage from targeted Russian air strikes that began in March that electricity cuts have become widespread. 
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said the attack was one of the largest of the war, with the damage registered in seven districts across the city. 
The Health Minister said that five units of the children’s hospital, the largest and best equipped in the country, were damaged and children were evacuated to other facilities.
(Reuters)