“A crime against humanity”. It was with these words that Volodymyr Zelensky defined the Russian strike aimed at a clinic in Dnipro this Friday morning. At least one person was killed and fifteen others, including two children aged 3 and 6, injured in the strike targeting this health facility in central-eastern Ukraine, authorities said.
The Ukrainian president posted a video on Telegram, picked up by the Kyiv Independent, in which we can see heavily damaged buildings and topped with plumes of black smoke. “We must defeat these inhuman beings,” Zelensky said of the Russian army.
⚡️Zelensky: 1 killed, 15 injured in Russian strike on clinic in Dnipro.
According to President Volodymyr Zelensky, the rescue operation is ongoing at the site of the missile strike that Russian forces launched on the morning of May 26.
Video: President’s Office pic.twitter.com/AWoJfZa1J1
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) May 26, 2023
“The rescue of the wounded continues,” added regional governor Serguiï Lyssak on Telegram, this official, according to whom the strike caused a fire in two buildings. “The fire affected a total of 500 m2. Firefighters are battling the flames,” he said.
#Rashists also shelled Gulyaipole in Zaporizhzhia and Avdiivka in Donetsk region. In Gulyaipol, residential buildings were covered and destroyed by enemy artillery. 2 injured women were pulled out from under the rubble. An airstrike destroyed a residential building in Avdiivka -… pic.twitter.com/EbuQQ6G6Or
— Devana 🇺🇦 (@DevanaUkraine) May 26, 2023
Several Ukrainian Telegram channels posted videos of lifeguards helping people covered in blood escape the clinic through rubble-filled corridors.
According to Sergueiï Lyssak, his Dnipropetrovsk region was also “mively attacked” during the night by Russian “missiles and drones”.
France condemns these “unacceptable” acts
“France condemns in the strongest terms the Russian missile and drone strikes which once again targeted Kiev as well as the Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions last night,” the French Foreign Ministry said following the attack.
“These strikes have once again deliberately targeted civilian targets, including a hospital in Dnipro, in flagrant violation of international humanitarian law. The ministry speaks of “unacceptable acts constituting war crimes” which “cannot go unpunished”.
Since early May, Russia has intensified its air attacks, often at night, against Ukraine. kyiv, the capital, has suffered thirteen night attacks since the beginning of the month, according to the authorities who claim to have repelled them all.
On his side, Moscow reported Ukrainian bombardments on a Russian border region, for the fifth consecutive day.
The region of Belgorod suffered dozens of artillery fire in the past 24 hours, according to Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, which caused material damage but no casualties.