A RUSSIAN strike on a children’s hospital in southern Ukraine has wounded nine people, including an eight-year-old child.
President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned as a “deliberate” attack that proves Moscow has no interest in peace.
The strike hit a hospital in Kherson, blowing out windows and leaving bloodstains across treatment rooms.
Footage released by Ukrainian officials showed debris scattered over stretchers and medical equipment.
Dmytro Lubinets, Ukraine’s ombudsman, confirmed that among the wounded was an eight-year-old girl.
Around 100 people were inside the hospital at the time of the attack, Zelensky said.
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“They could not have been unaware of where they were striking,” he said.
“This was a deliberate Russian attack specifically against children, against medical personnel, against basic guarantees of life in the community.”
Moscow has not commented on the strike, maintaining its long-standing claim that it only targets military sites despite repeated accusations of war crimes.
Kherson, located on the opposite bank of the Dnipro River, was temporarily occupied by Russian forces in 2022.
It continues to endure frequent shelling and drone strikes.
Zelensky accused Russia of “not only dragging out its terrorist war but also trying to do everything possible to ensure that no opportunity to end it succeeds.”
His comments came as separate Russian attacks on the southern region of Odessa left 27,000 homes without power.
Ukrainian officials believe this is part of Moscow’s ongoing effort to cripple the country’s energy infrastructure.
Similar attacks in past winters plunged millions into darkness, cutting off heating during freezing temperatures.
Ukraine has continued to respond with its own strikes on Russian territory.
Officials in Kyiv claimed to have hit two oil refineries and a gas processing plant overnight.
In Russia’s Belgorod region, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said a Ukrainian drone strike killed one person and wounded three others in the border village of Shebekino.
Meanwhile, Russia’s defence ministry announced that its troops had advanced on the front line, capturing the village of Vyshneve in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region.
Amid the intensifying conflict, President Vladimir Putin revealed that Russia had successfully tested a nuclear-capable super torpedo.
This comes day after Russia revealed that it had fired a new land missile dubbed “Flying Chernobyl.”
Speaking to a group of wounded soldiers, Putin described the test as “a huge success.”
“There is no way to intercept it,” he boasted.
Russian sources have claimed the torpedo can travel underwater at speeds of up to 115 miles per hour and reach depths below 3,000 feet.
It is capable of creating radioactive tsunamis capable of rendering coastlines uninhabitable.
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However, security expert Philip Ingram MBE noted that the weapon could only be used with a nuclear warhead.
This is a step he believes Putin would not dare to take.