<div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on Ukraine on Tuesday after a deadly Russian strike on a Kyiv children's hospital, a spokesman for the world body said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The session scheduled for 10:00 am (1400 GMT) follows a request from Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, UN spokesman Farhan Aziz Haq told AFP.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Zelensky said 38 people were killed and 190 wounded Monday in a wave of missiles that targeted towns and cities.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He said Kyiv was "initiating an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council due to the Russian strike on civilian infrastructure".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The UN said Tuesday there was a "high likelihood" that the children's hospital in the capital suffered "a direct hit" from a Russian missile.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Danielle Bell, head of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, called the strike "one of the most egregious attacks that we've seen since the onset of the full-scale invasion" by Russia in February 2022.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd024/kh</div>