The European Union threatened sanctions against Belarus after Russia announced it would store tactical nuclear weapons in the Kremlin-aligned country, which shares a long border with northern Ukraine. Follow our live coverage.
Oksana Leontieva, a 36-year-old doctor who treated patients with cancer and other serious diseases at Ukraine’s top children’s hospital, was running late for work one morning in October.
She dropped off her son at kindergarten as air raid sirens rang out across the city. Just a mile from the hospital, she was killed after a missile strike hit Kyiv, Missy Ryan, Kostiantyn Khudov and Alice Martins report. One of her colleagues, Olha Daschakovska, called her death a “murder.” In its wake, her son was left without a mother, and her patients were left without their doctor.
“Russia took childhood not just from her son, but from other patients she could have cured,” Daschakovska said.
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