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Pediatric oncologist Oksana Leontyeva killed in Russian rocket attack on Kyiv

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Oksana Leontyeva, an expert in hematologic malignancies, was killed in a Russian rocket attack as she was rushing through central Kyiv to take care of her patients at OKHMATDYT, the biggest children’s hospital in Ukraine.

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