Canadian Red Cross helps rebuild Ukrainian children's hospital after rocket attack

KYIV — Workers dangle from ropes as they brush the last bit of white paint on the trim of the Okhmatdyt children’s cardiac hospital in Kyiv.

Below them, a damaged children's stroller and construction supplies sit atop a tree-covered garbage heap. Windows of some surrounding buildings are still boarded up with plywood.

One year after a devastating rocket attack on Ukraine's largest children's hospital that killed four and injured a dozen, the century-old facility is getting ready to reopen — with help from the Canadian Red Cross.

"The rocket actually fell to that building," said Mykyta Ilin from the Red Cross, pointing to a smaller building 100 metres away from the cardiac centre.

"Luckily, it hit this small building ... and not the main children's hospital or the cardio centre where th