"The city is urgently beginning to evacuate two hospitals, including a children's hospital," the city council announced on Telegram.

The council mentioned a video circulating on 'online' media indicating that there would be soldiers in these establishments.

This "in fact announces an attack," highlights the City Council, which insists on the fact that hospitals are not military installations.

The video in question states that two hospitals located on Bogatyrska Street, on the northern outskirts of Kyiv, are home to soldiers who "hide behind sick children".

These "terrorists (...) will all receive the punishment they deserve," insists a man in the video.

"It is an absolute lie and a provocation by the enemy, who is trying to use it to target the capital's social infrastructure," accused the Kyiv City Council, assuring that it is doing everything possible "to transfer patients and doctors to other clinical establishments in the capital.

Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, at least 1,682 attacks on health care facilities have been recorded in the country, according to figures from the World Health Organization (WHO) released in early April.

These attacks have left at least 128 dead and 288 injured among medical staff and patients, according to the WHO, which criticized "a worrying escalation" during the first months of this year, with almost one attack per day between January and March.

Russia has increased its airstrikes in recent weeks in Ukraine, particularly targeting energy facilities and other critical infrastructure in the country.

Among its targets, Russia has intensified attacks on Ukraine's rail network to paralyze military supplies, especially Western equipment, with a view to a new offensive, according to a senior Ukrainian security official speaking to France Presse.

The railway infrastructure is particularly vital in Ukraine, both for the transport of passengers and trade and for the Army, since, since the start of the Russian invasion in February 2022, all civil air traffic has been paralyzed in that country.

On Thursday alone, attacks hit these infrastructures in three Ukrainian regions.

In Donetsk (east), divided by the front line, three employees of the railway company Ukrzaliznytsia were killed in an attack on a railway station.

On the same day, ten civilians were injured in a missile attack on Balaklia station in the Kharkiv region (northeast), and railway infrastructure was damaged in Smila (Cherkassy region, center).

A massive bombardment of railway facilities in Dnipro and the east-central region killed a Ukrzaliznytsia employee and injured seven others on April 19. A week earlier, Sumy station (north) was hit by an attack.

The Russian army today claimed to have hit a "train with Western weapons and military equipment" in the city of Udatchne, in the Donetsk region, as well as "troops and equipment" in Balaklia.

Although it did not provide dates, these claims appear to correspond to the attacks mentioned the previous day by the Ukrainian authorities.

These attacks on the railways also come at a time when the United States, after months of paralysis due to internal political rivalries, has resumed its military aid to Ukraine.

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