Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has denounced a saturday deadly strike on a blood transfusion centre as a “war crime.”
A separate strike struck a key factory, both attacks coming just hours after Kyiv hit a Russian tanker in the Kerch Strait.
The attacks were the latest since Moscow exited a deal last month that had ensured Ukrainian grain exports despite the ongoing conflict.
Russian forces struck the blood transfusion centre in the Kharkiv region of northeast Ukraine, Zelensky said, adding that “dead and wounded are reported.”
A “guided air bomb” hit the centre in Kupiansk, a city a few dozen kilometres from the Russian border, said Zelensky.
“Rescuers are extinguishing the fire,” he wrote on social media, adding: “This war crime alone says everything about Russian aggression.”
The strike came shortly after Zelensky said Russian missiles had hit a facility of the Ukrainian aeronautics group Motor Sich, a maker of plane and helicopter engines and other components.
It is one of several companies requisitioned by the government since Moscow’s invasion.
Motor Sich’s headquarters are in the partially Russian-controlled region of Zaporizhzhia in southeast Ukraine.
It was unclear if the Russian strikes had hit the Motor Sich headquarters.
In his evening address, Zelensky remained defiant, insisting that “no matter how many such Russian attacks there are, they will still do nothing for the enemy.”
