'I want Russians to feel it on their own skin': Shock, fury at the site of children's hospital attack

Nurse Olesia Filonenko was preparing for the first operation of the day at the Okhmatdyt children's hospital in Kyiv when she heard explosions "somewhere far away."

"Then, in a second, everything was blown away," she told the Kyiv Independent.

"Dust, smoke. We were all blown out of the operating rooms and into the corridors."

Russian forces had just launched a massive missile strike on cities across Ukraine, with Kyiv coming under particularly heavy attack.

Okhmatdyt hospital – the country's largest children's medical center – was struck by a Kh-101 cruise missile, according to the preliminary data obtained by the State Security Service (SBU).