Photos: Dozens killed in Russian bombing of Ukraine; children’s hospital hit | News on the Russia-Ukraine war

At least 31 people were killed and 112 injured in Ukraine in a Russian missile salvo – the worst in months.

A rocket struck a children’s hospital in the capital Kyiv on Monday, burying victims under rubble. Dozens of volunteers, doctors and rescue workers dug through the rubble of part of the Okhmatdyt National Children’s Hospital in a desperate search for survivors after the rare daytime bombing.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian forces fired more than 40 missiles at five cities, mainly in the south and east of the country, as well as at Kyiv.

The attacks came during a visit by Zelensky to Warsaw before he left for the NATO summit in Washington DC, where he is expected to ask for more military support from the country’s allies.

At the time of the strike, 40-year-old Natalia Svidler was in the hospital with her two-year-old son, where he is awaiting surgery this week.

“The nurses told us to go to the basement. After a while we heard a loud rumbling and then the ceiling in the basement collapsed a little,” she told the AFP news agency on site.

“Of course everyone was very scared. Everyone started screaming and running,” she said.

Ukrainian energy company DTEK said the attack destroyed or damaged three substations. It was the latest in a series of attacks that have halved the country’s energy generation capacity in recent months.

In Zelensky’s hometown of Kryvyi Rih, which has been repeatedly targeted by Russian bombings, at least 10 people were killed and more than 40 injured in the attacks, officials said.

There was no initial comment from the Kremlin on the attacks, but it stressed that its forces do not attack civilian infrastructure.