Watch: Debris cleared after Russian attack on Kyiv children’s hospital

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Watch Ukrainian rescue workers clear debris after a Russian missile attack on a children’s hospital in Kyiv.

Russia hit the Okhmatdyt children’s hospital with a missile in broad daylight on Monday, July 8, and also rained missiles on other cities in Ukraine, killing at least 41 civilians in the deadliest wave of airstrikes in months.

Parents holding their babies walked dazed and sobbing on the street outside the hospital after the rare airstrike in broad daylight.

Windows had been smashed and paneling torn down, and hundreds of Kyiv residents helped clear away the rubble.

President Volodymyr Zelensky, who stopped off in Poland before traveling to a NATO summit in Washington, put the death toll at 37, including three children.

More than 170 were injured.

“The Russian terrorists must answer for this,” he wrote on Telegram.

“Being concerned does not stop terror. Condolences are not a weapon.”

The government declared a day of mourning on Tuesday for one of the heaviest air strikes of the war, saying the attack showed that Ukraine urgently needs reinforcements of its air defenses from its Western allies.