UN Security Council to hold emergency meeting over Russian missile strikes on Ukraine
The UN Security Council will convene an emergency meeting on Tuesday, July 9. The meeting will be devoted to Russia's missile attack on the Okhmatdyt children's hospital in Kyiv and other cities of Ukraine, according to Sky News.
It is noted that the meeting was called for by several countries: the United Kingdom, France, Ecuador, Slovenia, and the United States of America.
The Security Council will convene following Russia's missile strike on Kyiv, which resulted in damage to a children's hospital.
"We will call out Russia's cowardly and depraved attack on the hospital," the UK's UN ambassador, Barbara Woodward, stated.
Earlier, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Ukraine would initiate an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council because of today's Russian missile attack.
Russia's strike on Kyiv on July 8
On Monday morning, Russia launched a massive missile attack on Ukrainian cities. A total of 38 missiles were launched, and 30 air targets were shot down.
The first attack was on the Okhmatdyt children's hospital. Rescue operations are still ongoing to clear the rubble and search for people who may be trapped underneath. A second missile strike in the Dniprovskyi district damaged a multi-story building of a medical center.
Read more about the consequences of the shelling in the material by RBC-Ukraine.
