‘No words for this’: horror over Russian bombing of Kyiv children’s hospital

Rescuers, volunteers and medical workers search for survivors after a Russian missile attack on Ukraine’s biggest children’s hospital. Photograph: Efrem Lukatsky/AP

The children sat in stunned silence, their fragile bodies still tethered to medical drips outside the Okhmatdyt children’s hospital in central Kyiv, where an impromptu field clinic had sprung up.

They had not long emerged from the hospital’s dark, dusty bomb shelter, and their eyes were still adjusting to the light.