Lviv Mourns Doctor Killed in Kyiv Attack

On a baking hot day, a weeping crowd of mourners gathered to bury Svitlana Lukianchyk, a bright young doctor killed by a Russian missile strike on a children's hospital.

"She was a golden child, I don't understand how this could have happened, how the Lord could have taken her away," her grandmother, Alla Zherebetska, said through tears outside a church in central Lviv, the western Ukrainian city where Lukianchyk grew up and would now be buried.

The 30-year-old doctor was killed when a Russian missile smashed into one of the buildings of Ukraine's largest children's hospital in Kyiv, killing two and wounding dozens.

"I have no idea why. I don't have the strength for this, she was supposed to live a long life and just got married," her grandmother said.

Lukianchyk was one of 33 people to be killed that day by one of Russia's largest attacks on Kyiv of the 28-month war.

The city, which had previously felt shielded by the array of Western air defense systems protecting it, reeled from the shock of losing so many people in a single attack as a day of mourning was held.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy vowed retaliation against Russia for the attack when speaking in Warsaw.

"It was her who took the children ... to the bomb shelter. She didn't make it in time. The blast wave was very strong," said Maria Prishchepa, a school friend of Lukianchuk.

Russia said, without evidence, that a Ukrainian air defense missile hit the hospital. Kyiv said it had "unequivocal" evidence of a direct hit by a Russian Kh-101 missile.

Video footage verified appeared to contradict Moscow's account, and the U.N. 's monitoring mission in Ukraine said it had established a high probability that the hospital had taken a direct hit from a Russian missile.