SEVERAL people have been killed and injured after Russian forces bombed a blood bank eastern Ukraine, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky.
A Russian guided aerial bomb hit the transfusion centre in the town of Kupiansk in the eastern Kharkiv region late on Saturday.
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“There are dead and wounded,” he said on his Telegram channel.
The report has not yet been independently verified.
Kupiansk is a railway hub fewer than 10 miles from the front.
Zelensky said rescue workers were extinguishing a fire at the scene and described the strike as a “war crime.”
He did not say how many people were killed or wounded.
Russia denies deliberately targeting civilians in a full-scale invasion that has killed thousands of people, uprooted millions and destroyed cities.
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