Russia’s bombing of Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital is backfiring. Monday’s destruction of Okhmatdyt hospital at Kyiv, the nation’s press capital, immediately produced a stream of photos into the world’s press: child cancer patients waiting for transfers to a new hospital, their bottle drips by their sides, and mothers using napkins to protect their newborns from cement dust.

The hospital’s destruction has quickly elevated to be an international cause célèbre on a par with Russian army rapes and murders of civilians at the Kyiv suburb of Bucha and the Russian air force bombing at Mariupol of a theater filled with hundreds of women and children.