The Kremlin has denied it targeted the Kyiv children’s hospital that was struck by a missile on Monday. It was aiming at legitimate military and civil infrastructure targets, it says, but the missile was intercepted by Ukraine’s Nasams defence system and the debris fell on the children’s ward. This is an easily debunked lie. The Spectator’s correspondent Svitlana Morenets was nearby and reports in these pages that there is plenty of video evidence to show exactly what happened: a perfectly intact, precision-guided Kh-101 missile going exactly where it was aimed.
It is a war crime to target hospitals, yet Russia does so and still a European head of government, Viktor Orban, will pay homage to Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Putin is given red-carpet treatment in the Gulf states, which are openly playing both sides. Blind eyes are being turned while Ukrainian children are buried by rubble.
The Kremlin’s decision to attack hospitals seems to be an attempt to escalate the war
Russia’s strategy is to demoralise Ukraine and show that it is waging war without any constraint.
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