President Zelensky calls Russian bomb strike on blood transfusion centre a 'war crime'
A blood transfusion centre in the town of Kupiansk, located in the eastern Kharkiv region, was struck by an aerial bomb guided by Russian forces on Saturday night, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
"This war crime alone says everything about Russian aggression," President Zelensky said on his Telegram channel.
"Beasts that destroy everything that simply allows (us) to live. Defeating terrorists is a matter of honour for everyone who values life."
The president shared his condolences, saying there were dead and wounded from the attack.
Kupiansk is about 50km away from the Russian border and a short distance from the frontline.
The bombing of the blood transfusion centre forms part of a series of overnight shelling attacks across Ukraine.
According to Kyiv's air force, Russia used 70 air assault weapons, including cruise and hypersonic missiles, as well as Iranian-made drones, in a multi-wave attack across Ukraine, with at least 10 missiles appearing to have gone through air defences.
The missile strike hit a facility of the Ukrainian aeronautics group Motor Sich, president Volodymyr Zelensky has said, as well as striking the Khmelnytskyi region in western Ukraine.
The Khmelnytskyi region is home to a major Ukrainian airbase and, despite being hundreds of kilometres from the frontlines, it has been regularly targeted by Russian strikes.
The attacks came shortly after Kyiv claimed to have hit a Russian tanker in the Kerch Strait, as well as a boat drone attack on a Russian warship in Novorossiysk, hundreds of miles away from the frontline.
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