The United Nations has described the Russian airstrike on Kiev that damaged a paediatric hospital as a war crime. “Let me remind this council that hospitals have special protection under international humanitarian law,” said Joyce Msuya, the acting head of the UN Emergency Relief and Works Agency (OCHA) at an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council in New York. “Intentionally directing attacks against a protected hospital is a war crime and perpetrators must be held to account,” she said. The attacks were part of “a deeply concerning pattern of systemic attacks, harming healthcare and oth…