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Four killed in Russian strikes on Ukraine that destroyed blood transfusion centre

Smoke and flames rise from a building at night
Zelenskiy said a ‘guided air bomb’ had struck the blood transfusion centre in Kupiansk, a city in Kharkiv. Photograph: Telegram/V_Zelenskiy_Official/Reuters

A multi-wave overnight assault on Ukraine said to be in retaliation for successful strikes against Russian naval vessels killed four people and destroyed a blood transfusion centre even as the country’s air defences shot down 30 out of the 40 cruise missiles and tens of Shahed drones.

Oleh Syniehubov, the head of the regional military administration in the eastern Kharkiv oblast, said that along with two fatalities in his region, four people had been injured, while Volodymyr Zelenskiy condemned a “guided air bomb” strike against a medical facility as a war crime of “beasts”.

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