"We felt a powerful explosion, the ground shook and the walls shook," he said at Tuesday's briefing about the missile bombardment that hit two hospitals in the capital and other targets in Ukraine.
"Children and adults screamed and cried from fear, and the wounds from pain," she added.
"We heard people calling for help from under the rubble," she said.
At that time, 600 children were being treated in the hospital, some of them with IV fluids, and three heart surgeries were being performed, Zhovnir added.
About 300 people were injured in the attack on the National Specialized Children's Hospital in Okhmatdyt, and a doctor was among the two people killed, he said.
The Permanent Representative of Russia, Vasily Nebenzia, who presides over the Council for this month, listened impassively as several representatives condemned the attack on the hospital.
Accusing Russia of war crimes, Britain's Permanent Representative Barbara Woodward said: "Their conduct is a disgrace to the Security Council, especially the President's seat."
Nebenzia denied that Russia had hit the hospital and stated that it was a Ukrainian missile that fell on the hospital.
"If it was a Russian attack, there would have been nothing left of the building and all the children would have been killed and uninjured," she said strangely.
A Ukrainian missile that tried to intercept a Russian warhead aimed at a factory caused damage to the hospital, he added.
Western countries were performing "verbal gymnastics" to protect Ukraine as the NATO summit began in Washington, he said.
Ukraine's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Sergiy Kyslytsya, responded by showing photographs he said were of missile fragments bearing Russian markings found at the hospital, and of the route the missile took.
"The footage (recording the attack) captured the moment the KH 101 missile was launched towards the hospital building," he said.
United Nations Acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Joyce Msuya said: "Intentionally directing attacks against a protected hospital is a war crime, and the perpetrators must be held accountable."
"Yesterday's attacks and their impacts are a reminder of the deplorable human cost of this war, particularly among the most vulnerable members of society; tragedies we will see again and again as this conflict continues and the rules of war are challenged," he claimed. aggregate.
Guyana's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, asked: "What military or other advantage can be gained from the wanton attack on a children's hospital?"
The lives of innocent children "can no longer be sacrificed on the altar of brinkmanship," she said.
South Korea's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Joonkook Hwang, called the attack a "new low" and said, "An attack against the most vulnerable among us betrays a basic lack of humanity."
U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said that "yesterday's attack makes it abundantly clear that (Russian President Vladimir Putin) is not interested in peace," although she was pressuring Kiev "to accept an unjust peace while facing the barrel." of a weapon."
China's Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Geng Shuang, stopping short of outright condemning Russia, expressed concern about the "large number of casualties among innocent civilians" and about "the fighting (which) has intensified and occasionally from time to time there have been ferocious attacks, which caused serious casualties.
"In military confrontation there is no winner," he said.
Meanwhile, in Moscow, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during a visit to Russia, offered his own criticism of the attack without naming its hosts: "When innocent children are killed, when we see innocent children die, then our hearts hurt. And that pain is very horrible."
(and followed at @arulouis.)
"Children and adults screamed and cried from fear, and the wounds from pain," she added.
"We heard people calling for help from under the rubble," she said.
At that time, 600 children were being treated in the hospital, some of them with IV fluids, and three heart surgeries were being performed, Zhovnir added.
About 300 people were injured in the attack on the National Specialized Children's Hospital in Okhmatdyt, and a doctor was among the two people killed, he said.
The Permanent Representative of Russia, Vasily Nebenzia, who presides over the Council for this month, listened impassively as several representatives condemned the attack on the hospital.
Accusing Russia of war crimes, Britain's Permanent Representative Barbara Woodward said: "Their conduct is a disgrace to the Security Council, especially the President's seat."
Nebenzia denied that Russia had hit the hospital and stated that it was a Ukrainian missile that fell on the hospital.
"If it was a Russian attack, there would have been nothing left of the building and all the children would have been killed and uninjured," she said strangely.
A Ukrainian missile that tried to intercept a Russian warhead aimed at a factory caused damage to the hospital, he added.
Western countries were performing "verbal gymnastics" to protect Ukraine as the NATO summit began in Washington, he said.
Ukraine's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Sergiy Kyslytsya, responded by showing photographs he said were of missile fragments bearing Russian markings found at the hospital, and of the route the missile took.
"The footage (recording the attack) captured the moment the KH 101 missile was launched towards the hospital building," he said.
United Nations Acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Joyce Msuya said: "Intentionally directing attacks against a protected hospital is a war crime, and the perpetrators must be held accountable."
"Yesterday's attacks and their impacts are a reminder of the deplorable human cost of this war, particularly among the most vulnerable members of society; tragedies we will see again and again as this conflict continues and the rules of war are challenged," he claimed. aggregate.
Guyana's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, asked: "What military or other advantage can be gained from the wanton attack on a children's hospital?"
The lives of innocent children "can no longer be sacrificed on the altar of brinkmanship," she said.
South Korea's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Joonkook Hwang, called the attack a "new low" and said, "An attack against the most vulnerable among us betrays a basic lack of humanity."
U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said that "yesterday's attack makes it abundantly clear that (Russian President Vladimir Putin) is not interested in peace," although she was pressuring Kiev "to accept an unjust peace while facing the barrel." of a weapon."
China's Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Geng Shuang, stopping short of outright condemning Russia, expressed concern about the "large number of casualties among innocent civilians" and about "the fighting (which) has intensified and occasionally from time to time there have been ferocious attacks, which caused serious casualties.
"In military confrontation there is no winner," he said.
Meanwhile, in Moscow, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during a visit to Russia, offered his own criticism of the attack without naming its hosts: "When innocent children are killed, when we see innocent children die, then our hearts hurt. And that pain is very horrible."
(and followed at @arulouis.)
