Russia targeted Okhmadyt with an Kh-101 cruise missile
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14:55, 08 July, 2024
The investigators established that the Russians hit Okhmatdyt in Kyiv with an X-101 missile.
This was reported by the Security Service of Ukraine.
The law enforcement officers qualified the attack of the Russian Federation on the National Children's Specialized Hospital «Okhmatdyt» as a war crime and opened criminal proceedings based on this fact.
«According to the preliminary data of the investigators of the Security Service, the occupiers used the Kh-101 strategic cruise missile to fire damage to the medical facility. «Relevant evidence has already been found at the scene of the tragedy: in particular, fragments of the hull of the rear part of the X-101 rocket with a serial number and part of the rudder of the same rocket,» the message reads.
As of 1:50 p.m., two hospital workers are known to have died, seven people were injured, including at least two children.
As part of the criminal proceedings initiated by the Security Service, part 2 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (violations of the laws and customs of war, combined with intentional murder), the investigation is ongoing.
Note that the Kh-101 is a strategic air-to-ground cruise missile. The launch range of such a missile is about 5 thousand kilometers.
We will remind you that on Monday, June 8, Russia attacked Kyiv — a missile hit the premises of the National Children's Specialized Hospital «Okhmatdyt».