NEW YORK, July 9, 2024 (BSS/AFP) - The UN Security Council will hold an

emergency meeting on Ukraine on Tuesday after a deadly Russian strike on a
Kyiv children's hospital, a spokesman for the world body said.

The session scheduled for 10:00 am (1400 GMT) follows a request from Ukraine
President Volodymyr Zelensky, UN spokesman Farhan Aziz Haq told AFP.

Zelensky said 38 people were killed and 190 wounded Monday in a wave of
missiles that targeted towns and cities.

He said Kyiv was "initiating an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council
due to the Russian strike on civilian infrastructure".

The UN said Tuesday there was a "high likelihood" that the children's
hospital in the capital suffered "a direct hit" from a Russian missile.

Danielle Bell, head of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine,
called the strike "one of the most egregious attacks that we've seen since
the onset of the full-scale invasion" by Russia in February 2022.