German hospitals are to take in eight seriously ill Ukrainian children after the Kyiv hospital they were being treated in was badly damaged in a missile strike.

The Health and Interior ministries announced in Berlin on Thursday.

Most of the children, whose ages range from a few months to 15 years, were cancer patients.

They are to be accompanied by 10 close relatives.

Interior Nancy Faeser said the missile attack on the Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital last week once again demonstrated the unimaginable inhumanity with which Russian President Vladimir Putin was waging the war.

Health Minister Karl Lauterbach said the children concerned should not become victims. “We will care for them well in specialist German hospitals,” he said.

According to German government figures, almost 1,150 people from Ukraine, both soldiers and civilians, have been admitted to German hospitals since March 2022.

Many have lost limbs or suffered gunshot wounds or injuries caused by explosions.

Earlier, on July 8, two adults, including a doctor, were killed, and more than 30 were injured.

The incident occurred when a missile struck the building on the grounds of the children’s hospital in one of the heaviest attacks on Kyiv since the war began in February 2022. 

(dpa/NAN)