Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shared this image of a young hospital patient wounded in Monday’s Russian missile attack.(ZELENSKYY/X)

Leaders condemn latest Russian missile attacks on Ukraine

STORY BY STEPHEN J. THORNE

Moscow came under renewed condemnation this week after a series of Russian missile strikes killed at least 39 people in Ukraine, including a pediatrician and another adult at the country’s largest children’s hospital.

About 20 children were being treated in the ward hit Monday at Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital in Kyiv. Pictures showed young children, some with IV drips, sitting outside as the hospital was evacuated.

“One part of the hospital was destroyed and there was a fire in another,” said Dr. Lesia Lysytsia. “It’s really very damaged—maybe 60-70 per cent of the hospital.”

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Major David Currie.(WIKIMEDIA)

Remembering David Currie, V.C.

STORY BY ALEX BOWERS

Major David Currie remembered it being around 5 o’clock on a Wednesday when he first heard the news of having earned the Victoria Cross.

“I was staggered,” recalled The South Alberta Regiment tanker in a CBC radio interview recorded in the Netherlands. “I sat down, had a cigarette, and thought it over.”

Currie, born July 8, 1912, was 32-years-old when he displayed actions worthy of the military’s highest honour. Although a native of Sunderland, Sask., he grew up in Moose Jaw where his family lived between 1913 and 1939. It was there that he went to school, eventually pursuing a career as a vehicle mechanic and welder.

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