Ukraine war: Two people died and 32 were injured after a Russian missile hit a clinic in the east Ukrainian city of Dnipro . Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called the attack a serious war crime under the Geneva Conventions.
Video footage of the attack showed a building completely devastated, with smoke coming out of it and rescue workers looking on. Much of the upper floor of what appeared to be a three-storey building had been badly damaged. A covered corpse lay in the road nearby.
Crime against humanity, says Zelenskiy
“Another (Russian) missile attack, another crime against humanity,” Zelenskiy wrote on Twitter.
He said a psychological clinic and a veterinary clinic had been hit. “Only an evil state can fight against clinics. There can be no military purpose in this. It is pure Russian terror,” he said.
According to regional governor Serhiy Lysak, a 69-year-old man was killed as he passed the clinic. Another man’s body had been pulled out from the debris.
He said 32 people were wounded, including two children and added that contact had not yet been made with three people. They were thought to have been in the building when it was hit.
Ukraine’s Defence Ministry said the attack was a serious war crime under the Geneva Conventions of how soldiers and civilians should be treated in war.
Russia’s Defence Ministry said it had carried out an overnight strike on Ukrainian ammunition depots.
“The target of the strike has been achieved. All designated facilities were hit,” the RIA news agency quoted it as saying.
Russia denies committing war crimes
Moscow has dismissed allegations that its soldiers have committed war crimes. It also denies deliberately targeting civilians although it has bombarded cities across Ukraine since invading 15 months ago.
On Friday, Moscow had said Ukraine had struck two regions in southern Russia with a rocket and a drone, but the missile was shot down.
On the other side, Ukraine said it had shot down 10 missiles and more than 20 drones launched by Russia in overnight attacks on Dnipro, Kyiv and eastern regions.
Russia said a fire had broken out on the outskirts of the northeastern city of Kharkiv after an oil depot was hit twice, and that equipment for pumping oil products had been damaged.
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