Second child dies after Russian missile strike on Kyiv's Okhmatdyt hospital
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Seven-year-old Yehor Zavadetskyi tragically passed away at a cardiac center in Kyiv several days after being transferred from the dialysis unit of Okhmadyt Children's Hospital, which was hit by a Russian missile on July 8, the Vikna news outlet reported on July 12, citing the boy’s mother, Anastasia.
"Our son is dead. Yehorchik fell asleep forever," she wrote on social media.
Yehor spent 12 days in a coma after suffering a severe liver injury, brain swelling, and swollen eyes from a fall off his bicycle. He underwent several surgeries at Okhmadyt and was in the third stage of a coma in intensive care at the time of the missile strike.
The Zavadetskyi family lived in the village of Holyn in Ukraine’s western Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, where they moved from the frontline city of Kherson, which is under constant Russian shelling. Yehor had graduated from the first grade of the Holyn Lyceum.
"The entire Lyceum family mourns the death of our student Yehor Zavadetskyi. We express our deepest condolences and share the grief of his parents. May you rest in peace, Yehorchik, you will always be in our hearts!!! Eternal memory!" the lyceum wrote on its Facebook page.
Russia’s massive missile attack on July 8
Russia launched a massive missile attack on Kyiv, Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, and other Ukrainian cities on July 8, killing 44 people and injuring 196 others, including 10 children.
Ukraine’s air defense forces intercepted 30 of the 38 incoming missiles, including Kinzhal, Iskander-M, Kh-101, Kalibr, and Kh-59/Kh-69 missiles, according to Ukrainian Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk.
The attack targeted the Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital and struck a high-rise residential building in Kyiv’s Shevchenkivskyi district, completely demolishing one entrance of the building.
A subsequent attack on Kyiv partially destroyed a medical center in the Dniprovskyi district, killing eight people.
Damage has been reported in seven Kyiv districts.
Ukraine’s State Emergency Service reported 11 fatalities in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast — 10 in Kryvyi Rih and one in Dnipro — and 64 injuries.
A day of mourning was declared in Kyiv and Kryvyi Rih on July 9.
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