President Zelensky accuses Russia of committing a ‘conflict crime’

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of committing a “war crime” after an evening of intense shelling killed three.

A guided bomb hit a blood transfusion centre in Kupiansk, Kharkiv, late on Saturday evening, leaving two lifeless and 4 injured.

About 70 assault drones and missiles rained down on Ukraine in a single day, together with on a Ukrainian airbase thought to carry British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles.

Mr Zelensky shared a picture of the transfusion centre on fireplace on social media.

Alongside it he wrote: “This war crime alone says everything about Russian aggression.

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

Kupiansk was seized by Russia within the first few days of the conflict, however was liberated by Ukraine final September. It has confronted each day assaults since.

A lady in her eighties was additionally killed, by Ukrainian shelling in Russian-held Donetsk, Russian-appointed mayor Alexey Kulemzin stated.

Kyiv officers stated Russia’s bombardment of assault drones and air and sea missiles included cruise missiles launched from plane over the Caspian Sea and Iranian-made Shahed-136/131 strike unmanned aerial autos (UAVs).

Three waves of assaults utilizing superior Russian Dagger missiles and Iranian drones and missiles precipitated explosions within the neighborhood of Starokonstantinov air base in Ukraine’s Khmelnytskyi area, Russian state-owned Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported.

The scale of the injury was unclear, however Russian sources claimed the bottom was utilized by Ukrainian Su-24 warplanes to fireplace British Storm Shadows and French model SCALP-EGs at Russian-held territory.

On Ukraine’s Day of Air Force, Russian experiences say different air bases have been attacked.

Russia’s Flightbomber Telegram channel stated: “Particular attention was paid to Ukrainian airfields. so much that the remnants of their aviation had to hastily rush to the west at night.

“The Russian Air Force congratulated the Ukrainian Air Force on Aviation Day, so to speak.”

In Russia, a drone was shot down in Moscow airspace, briefly shutting down town’s Vnukovo airport, 9 miles southwest of the capital.

The Russian defence ministry stated the drone was destroyed by air defence methods within the Podolsk area of the Moscow suburbs.

It is the fourth drone assault into Russia’s airspace within the final month. Flights have been final halted on the airport on July 30 when two drones crashed into the Moscow metropolis enterprise district after being jammed by Russian air defences.

Elsewhere a 55-year-old man was hospitalised after a missile struck homes and farm buildings in Ukraine’s jap Kupyan area. The assault additionally began a forest fireplace close by.

Another individual was injured when Russian missiles hit buildings and sparked a warehouse fireplace within the Khmelnytsky area, native navy officers stated.

Ukrainian shelling additionally began a hearth and precipitated the roof to break down on the M. Tugan-Baranovsky University of Economics and Trade within the Russian-held Donetsk, Russia stated.

Russia had promised retaliation on Saturday after it claimed Ukrainian drones hit a Russian tanker within the Black Sea close to Crimea.