Zelensky says Russian strikes Monday killed 43 in Ukraine, raising toll

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Emergency workers respond at the Okhmatdyt children’s hospital hit by Russian missiles, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, July 8, 2024. A major Russian missile attack across Ukraine on Monday killed at least 31 people and injured 154, officials said, with one striking a large children’s hospital in the capital of Kyiv, where emergency crews searched the rubble for victims. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Washington that 43 people were killed in Russian strikes on Ukraine Monday, raising the toll from 37 dead.

“Forty-three people were killed by this attack,” Zelensky said in a speech to a think tank.