Mechnikov hospital damaged in night attack

26 October, 2024 Illustrative image of the Mechnikov Hospital. Photo from the Internet As a result of a nighttime ballistic missile attack on the city of Dnipro, the Dnipro Regional Clinical Hospital named after I.

I. Mechnikov has been damaged. This news was shared by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi.

"Over the past evening and night, Russian troops struck Kyiv, Dnipro, Sumy, Khmelnytskyi and other regions of Ukraine. In Dnipro, one of the most important hospitals in Ukraine - the Mechnikov Hospital - and ordinary residential buildings were damaged," Volodymyr Zelenskyi announced in an official statement regarding the attack. According to the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration, Serhii Lysak, three people died in Dnipro, including one child.

21 people were injured, 7 of them were hospitalized. A 17-year-old boy is in critical condition.

Residential buildings damaged as a result of the missile attack on Dnipro. Photo credits: Serhii Lysak

"As a result of a nighttime missile attack, several locations in the city have been damaged.

A residential two-story building and a garage have been destroyed.

13 apartment buildings and 2 private houses, 30 cars have been damaged. The hospital facilities have been damaged," Lysak shared. According to Ryzhenko Serhii, the chief doctor of the Mechnikov hospital, two persons were injured in the hospital.

One patient received a head injury and a doctor was cut up by glass shards, damaging his back.

A facility of the Mechnikov hospital was damaged as a result of the missile attack on Dnipro. Photo credits: Serhii Lysak

"There is not a single window, not a single bedside table, not a single device that has not been damaged," the chief doctor stated. According to him, the destruction caused delays in the urgent surgeries for gravely ill patients due to the ceiling collapsing in many rooms.

The wreckage found on the territory of the Mechnikov hospital.

Freeze-frame from video of Radio Svoboda (ed. Radio Liberty)

In July 2024, Russian troops launched a missile attack on a children's hospital in Kyiv. At that time, the wreckage of a Russian Kh-101 missile was collected at the site of the attack on the Okhmatdyt hospital.

In particular, a fragment of an Kh-101 cruise missile engine was found at the site of the tragedy. The SBU investigators also found fragments of the Kh-101 cruise missile engine with the inventory and serial numbers. "It was a targeted attack.

This is evidenced not only by the missile wreckage found at the impact site, but also by the analysis of flight path data," the investigators shared in an official press release.