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The UN considers that there is a "strong probability" that the children's hospital in Kyiv was hit by a "direct hit" from a Russian missile, according to the representative of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Ukraine, who speaks remotly during a UN press briefing in Geneva. SOUNDBITE
People scramble to douse a fire and clear rubble at Kyiv's Okhmatdyt children's hospital after it was hit in a rare daytime Russian barrage on cities across Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelensky said that there were an unknown number of people trapped under the rubble of the hospital and it was not immediately clear how many had been killed. IMAGES
A hospital in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv is evacuating its patients and staff over fears of Russian strikes following claims by Belarus's secret services that it, along with another medical facility, hosted military personnel. "The city is urgently beginning to evacuate two hospitals... because a video is widely circulated online, actually de facto announcing an enemy attack on these medical facilities," Kyiv's city administration said. IMAGES
Russia launched an air attack on Kyiv early Thursday, killing at least three people including two children and bringing fresh terror to the city after a week of strikes. IMAGES
Authorities and firefighters inspect the scene of a fire at a hospital in Russia's second city Saint Petersburg on Tuesday, which killed five coronavirus patients who had been attached to ventilators, officials and news agencies said. IMAGES
France's new Prime Minister Michel Barnier (LR), appointed on Thursday by Emmanuel Macron, is making his first field visit to the SAMU at Necker Hospital for Sick Children in Paris. IMAGES