Kharkiv hospital hit as Zelensky meets Trump over Tomahawks

Russian strikes on the northeastern city of Kharkiv struck the main hospital and forced the evacuation of dozens of patients just days before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington to press for longrange Tomahawk cruise missiles, officials said. The attack, carried out overnight with glide bombs and drones, wounded several people and hit energy infrastructure as diplomatic activity between Washington and Moscow intensified, regional and U.N. officials said.

Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv regional administration, said the strikes hit the city’s main hospital and prompted the evacuation of about 50 patients; he and other Ukrainian officials reported seven people wounded. In a separate incident, a United Nations food convoy in the Kherson region was struck by drones, damaging two trucks but causing no casualties, the U.N.’s humanitarian coordinator Matthias Schmale said, condemning the attack as a violation of international humanitarian law.

Zelensky arrived in Washington for a meeting with Trump on Friday that Ukrainian officials said would focus on air defenses, energy resilience and the potential transfer of U.S. Tomahawk...