According to a United Nations analysis, a Russian missile directly hit the Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital in Kyiv on July 8. This was reported by Daniel Bell, head of the UN human rights monitoring mission.
Bell said that analysis of the video and the circumstances of the incident indicate a high probability that the missile hit the hospital directly, rather than as a result of an interception. She noted that her team cannot yet make a definitive conclusion, but there is strong evidence that the missile was launched from Russia.
Bell also noted that hospital staff evacuated children to bunkers in time after the air raid sirens first sounded, which likely reduced the number of casualties.
At the same time, Russian propagandists and some officials continue to accuse Ukraine of destroying the hospital, claiming that the facility was hit by a missile from a NASAMS or Patriot anti-aircraft missile system. The Telegram channel "War with Fakes" publishes a version according to which the missile depicted in the video fully corresponds to the characteristics of the air defense system, and also emphasizes the absence of sounds characteristic of the Kh-101 missile.
The Russian Defense Ministry said its missile was aimed at a military facility, refusing to acknowledge the hospital attack. Dmitry Peskov, Putin's spokesman, stressed that the hospital attack was about the vulnerability of the "anti-missile system." Ukrainian law enforcement officials, for their part, have found new evidence indicating that the strike on the Okhmatdyt hospital was targeted by Russian forces with an Kh-101 missile, supported by fragments typical of this type of weapon and the nature of the damage consistent with the impact of such missiles.
