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KYIV — Before it was ripped apart by a Russian missile strike last month, the Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital treated about 700 patients daily. Today, Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital operates at roughly 60% capacity. One month after the devastating strike that killed at least 42 people, including five children, global headlines have moved on. Yet for Kyiv and Okhmatdyt, the arduous reconstruction process has yet to begin. Hospital director Volodymyr Zhovnir estimates the damages of the July 8 strike, which damaged six of Okhmatdyt’s buildings, could amount to several hundred million dollar…

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