On the eve of a Nato summit in Washington, Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, renewed his call for more air defences and said the world had the "necessary strength" to stop "Russian terror".
The US president, Joe Biden, who is expected to meet Zelenskiy, described the strike as a "horrific reminder of Russia's brutality".
Ukraine's SBU security service said missile fragments recovered from the scene, as well as flight path data, showed Moscow had targeted Okhmatdyt children's hospital with a Kh-101 cruise missile. It ploughed into a two-storey building, killing the mother of a patient and a 30-year-old doctor named Svitlana Lukianchuk, a paediatric nephrologist.
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