Russian missiles kill 20 in Ukraine, gut Kyiv children's hospital

Kyiv,Ukraine: Russia launched dozens of missiles at cities acrossUkraineon Monday in an attack that killed at least 20 people people and smashed into...

Kyiv, Ukraine: Russia launched dozens of missiles at cities across Ukraine on Monday in an attack that killed at least 20 people people and smashed into a children's hospital in Kyiv, officials said.

The rare day-time Russian barrage came as President Volodymyr Zelensky was due in Warsaw, the Polish government said, before he flies to the NATO summit in Washington.

Explosions rang out and black smoke could be seen rising from the centre of Kyiv, AFP journalists reported.

Pictures distributed by officials from the children's medical facility in Kyiv showed people digging through mounds of rubble, black smoke billowing over a gutted building and medical staff wearing blood-stained scrubs.