The United Nations Security Council will meet on Tuesday over the Russian attack on Ukraine that hit the main children’s hospital in Kiev, diplomats said.
Russia today targeted that hospital and other towns across Ukraine with missiles, killing at least 36 civilians in the deadliest airstrike in months.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres strongly condemned the Russian attacks, his spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.
“Guterres considers the attack on a children’s hospital and another medical facility ‘particularly shocking,” Dujarric said.
“Directing attacks on civilians and civilian objects is prohibited by international humanitarian law, and all such attacks are unacceptable and must stop immediately,” he added.
The Security Council meeting scheduled for Tuesday morning was requested by Britain, France, Ecuador, Slovenia and the United States.
“We will condemn Russia’s cowardly and depraved attack on the hospital,” British ambassador to the UN Barbara Woodward announced on the X social network.
The Russian Defense Ministry said that Russian forces attacked the targets of the dedicated industry and air base. It has denied that the army attacked civilians, although its attacks have killed thousands of civilians since the invasion in February 2022, Reuters reports.
