Several killed and more injured as Russia bombs blood bank in Kharkiv, President Zelensky says

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. Twitter/@ZelenskyyUaThe blood bank is said to have been hit by a Russian guided aerial bomb on Saturday night[/caption] “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.