Ukraine has claimed that Russian forces launched a guided drone assault on a "blood transfusion centre" in Kharkiv this night.

Taking to Twitter, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned Russia attacked the neighborhood of Kupiansk, and mentioned "dead and wounded" have been reported following the strike.

He wrote: "Russia's guided air bomb in opposition to a blood transfusion centre in Ukraine. This night, Kupiansk neighborhood in Kharkiv area.

"Dead and wounded are reported. My condolences! Our rescuers are extinguishing the fireplace.

"This war crime alone says everything about Russian aggression. Beasts that destroy everything that simply allows to live."

"Defeating terrorists is a matter of honour for everyone who values life."

The Ukrainian Defence Ministry mentioned that Russia has lately concentrated its assaults on Kupiansk, and the "directions" of Lyman, in Donetsk, and Svatove in Luhansk.

The Kyiv Independent reported the ministry as saying that "fierce battles" have been underway on the japanese entrance, the place Russia is trying to "cease Ukraine's advance in direction of Bakhmut".

The newest reviews of an assault on the blood transfusion centre are but to be independently verified.

Frontline organisations reported earlier in the present day that two individuals died following heavy shelling and aerial assaults in a city in Donetsk.

Donetsk prosecutors mentioned a "projectile hit a private residential building" in Torskyi, killing a 73-year-old man, whose physique was discovered below the rubble of his razed residence.

Olena Rudenko, a spokeswoman for the Donetsk regional prosecutor's workplace, instructed Ukrainian broadcasters Suspilne that the person's spouse was accumulating a pension fee on the time, and was exterior the blast radius.

A 61-year-old man residing in Novoslobid, Sumy, was additionally killed by shelling after he was wounded in his yard.

Russian forces have additionally blamed Ukraine for an unverified assault on the Donetsk University of Economics and Trade.

The constructing, in Kryvyi Rih, was reportedly set alight earlier in the present day, with Russian state media outlet TASS posting pictures from the college.

Alexei Kulemzin, the Russian-installed metropolis mayor, claimed Ukraine had used cluster bombs within the assault, and broken college buildings.

Kulemzin didn't declare the bombs killed anybody within the Russian-occupied metropolis, however mentioned emergency companies have been making an attempt to extinguish the blaze.

He mentioned: "As a result of another shelling of Donetsk, the building of the 1st building of the University of Economics and Trade is on fire."