Russia 'should face court' for children's hospital attack

Ukraine urges ICC to investigate the targeting of civilians

- TOM WATLING

Ukraine's top prosecutor has urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) to prosecute Russia over a missile strike on a children's hospital that killed or wounded dozens of doctors and civilians.

Prosecutor general Andriy Kostin, who was in The Hague where the ICC is based, for meetings with legal officials, said the strike was worth "lifting" to the court in part because Kyiv seeks to demonstrate the systematic nature of Russia's attack on civilians.

"For the sake of international justice, cases like the intentional attack on the biggest child hospital in Kyiv (are) worth lifting to the ICC," he said.

At least 44 people were killed and around 200 wounded by the Russian strikes on Monday in what one United Nations aid worker described as "one of the worst attacks" they had seen since February 2022, when the full-scale invasion began.