Ukraine war: Russia hits blood transfusion centre, says Zelensky

A Russian guided aerial weaponry has deed a humor transfusion centre successful north-eastern Ukraine, sidesplitting and injuring people, Ukraine's president has said.

Volodymyr Zelensky said rescuers were present trying to tackle a blaze aft the onslaught connected the Kupiansk assemblage successful the Kharkiv portion connected Saturday night.

"Defeating terrorists is simply a substance of honour for everyone who values life," helium added.

Russia has truthful acold not publically commented connected the reported attack.

In a station connected societal media, Mr Zelensky described the perpetrators arsenic "beasts" who were seeking to "destroy everything that simply allows to live".

"This was transgression unsocial says everything astir Russian aggression," helium said.

He did not accidental however galore radical were killed and injured successful the attack.

The BBC has not been capable to instantly verify the report.

The metropolis of Kupiansk and adjacent settlements were seized by Russian troops successful the archetypal fewer days of Moscow's full-scale penetration of Ukraine, launched successful February 2022.

The country was liberated during a lightning-quick Ukrainian counter-offensive past September.

President Zelensky besides said that connected Saturday Russia separately carried retired a rocket attack, targeting an aeronautical institution tally by radical Motor Sich successful the occidental Khmelnytskyi region.

The Russian strikes travel aft Moscow accused Ukraine of hitting a Russian tanker with 11 unit members successful the Black Sea - the 2nd specified oversea drone onslaught successful arsenic galore days.

Russian maritime officials said the motor country of the Sig tanker was damaged successful the onslaught successful the Kerch Strait. No-one was injured.

The Kerch Strait connects the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, separating Crimea - Ukraine's peninsula annexed by Moscow successful 2014 - and Russia's Taman peninsula.

Ukraine has not publically commented. But a Ukrainian information work root told the BBC a oversea drone had been used.