{"id":3070,"date":"2023-08-06T17:03:31","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T17:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=3070"},"modified":"2023-08-06T17:03:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T17:03:31","slug":"ukraine-war-russia-hits-blood-transfusion-centre-says-zelensky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=3070","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine war: Russia hits blood transfusion centre, says Zelensky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" class=\"e1j2237y5 bbc-q4ibpr ebmt73l0\">\n<div class=\"bbc-1atl7vu euvj3t14\">\n<ul role=\"list\" class=\"bbc-ccegd7 euvj3t12\">\n<li role=\"listitem\" class=\"bbc-1a3w4ok euvj3t11\">By Jaroslav Lukiv<\/li>\n<li role=\"listitem\" class=\"bbc-1p92jtu euvj3t10\">BBC Information<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" class=\"e1j2237y6 bbc-q4ibpr ebmt73l0\"><time datetime=\"2023-08-05\" class=\"bbc-1dafq0j e1mklfmt0\">5 August 2023<\/time><\/p>\n<p><time datetime=\"2023-08-06\" class=\"bbc-1dafq0j e1mklfmt0\">Up to date 1 hour in the past<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-1ka88fa ebmt73l0\">\n<figure class=\"bbc-1qdcvv9 e1aczekt0\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-172p16q ebmt73l0\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-189y18v ebmt73l0\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%\" data-e2e=\"image-placeholder\" class=\"bbc-997y1y eihqrxw0\"><amp-img fallback=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/240\/cpsprodpb\/12AC6\/production\/_130668467_kupiansk_zelensky.jpg 240w, https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/12AC6\/production\/_130668467_kupiansk_zelensky.jpg 320w, https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/12AC6\/production\/_130668467_kupiansk_zelensky.jpg 480w, https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/12AC6\/production\/_130668467_kupiansk_zelensky.jpg 624w, https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/800\/cpsprodpb\/12AC6\/production\/_130668467_kupiansk_zelensky.jpg 800w\" alt=\"Photo purportedly showing a blood transfusion centre on fire in Kupiansk community, north-eastern Ukraine\" attribution=\"Telegram\/Volodymyr Zelensky\" layout=\"responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/640\/cpsprodpb\/12AC6\/production\/_130668467_kupiansk_zelensky.jpg\" height=\"549\" width=\"976\" data-hero=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p role=\"text\" class=\"bbc-1s1cxbv ewbcsnk0\"><span class=\"bbc-m04vo2\">Picture supply, <\/span>Telegram\/Volodymyr Zelensky<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-3edg7g ebmt73l0\"><figcaption dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-1woqkw9 e6i104o0\"><span class=\"bbc-m04vo2\">Picture caption, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>President Zelensky posted a photograph purportedly displaying Kupiansk&#8217;s blood transfusion centre on fireplace after the Russian assault<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-19j92fr ebmt73l0\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-hhl7in e17g058b0\"><b>A Russian &#8220;guided bomb&#8221; has hit a blood transfusion centre in north-eastern Ukraine, killing two individuals and injuring 4, Ukrainian officers say.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-19j92fr ebmt73l0\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-hhl7in e17g058b0\">Volodymyr Zelensky posted a picture of the constructing on fireplace because of Saturday evening&#8217;s assault round Kupiansk, within the Kharkiv area.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-19j92fr ebmt73l0\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-hhl7in e17g058b0\">&#8220;This conflict crime alone says the whole lot about Russian aggression,&#8221; he stated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-19j92fr ebmt73l0\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-hhl7in e17g058b0\">Russia has not commented. It has beforehand denied all allegations of focusing on civilians &#8211; or conflict crimes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-19j92fr ebmt73l0\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-hhl7in e17g058b0\">Town of Kupiansk and close by settlements have been seized by Russian troops within the first few days of Moscow&#8217;s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, launched in February 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-19j92fr ebmt73l0\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-hhl7in e17g058b0\">The world was liberated throughout a Ukrainian counter-offensive final September, however comes underneath missiles and shelling every day. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-19j92fr ebmt73l0\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-hhl7in e17g058b0\">In a put up on social media, Mr Zelensky described the perpetrators as &#8220;beasts&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-19j92fr ebmt73l0\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-hhl7in e17g058b0\">&#8220;Defeating terrorists is a matter of honour for everybody who values life,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-19j92fr ebmt73l0\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-hhl7in e17g058b0\">Mr Zelensky didn&#8217;t give particulars of the casualties. However native officers later posted the identical picture including particulars concerning the assault on what they described as a non-residential constructing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-19j92fr ebmt73l0\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-hhl7in e17g058b0\">President Zelensky additionally stated that on Saturday Russia individually carried out a missile assault, focusing on an aeronautical firm run by group Motor Sich within the western Khmelnytskyi area.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-19j92fr ebmt73l0\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-hhl7in e17g058b0\">On Sunday, Russia&#8217;s air defences destroyed a drone because it approached Moscow, the town&#8217;s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, stated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-19j92fr ebmt73l0\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-hhl7in e17g058b0\">Final week, an workplace block on a Moscow skyscraper was hit two days in a row by Ukrainian drones, Russian authorities stated. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-19j92fr ebmt73l0\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-hhl7in e17g058b0\">Ukraine has not publicly admitted finishing up such assaults.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-19j92fr ebmt73l0\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-hhl7in e17g058b0\">Moscow has additionally accused Ukraine on Saturday of hitting a Russian tanker with 11 crew members within the Black Sea &#8211; the second such sea drone assault in as many days.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-19j92fr ebmt73l0\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-hhl7in e17g058b0\">Russian maritime officers stated the engine room of the Sig tanker was broken within the assault within the Kerch Strait. No-one was injured.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-19j92fr ebmt73l0\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-hhl7in e17g058b0\">The Kerch Strait connects the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, separating Crimea &#8211; Ukraine&#8217;s peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014 &#8211; and Russia&#8217;s Taman peninsula.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-19j92fr ebmt73l0\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-hhl7in e17g058b0\">Ukraine has not publicly commented. However a Ukrainian safety service supply advised the BBC a sea drone had been used.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-19j92fr ebmt73l0\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-hhl7in e17g058b0\">In one other growth, the Chonhar highway bridge linking mainland Ukraine to Crimea was hit by a Ukrainian missile strike on Sunday, based on Russia&#8217;s RIA information company. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-19j92fr ebmt73l0\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-hhl7in e17g058b0\">Moscow-installed Kherson regional governor Vladimir Saldo wrote on Telegram that one other small bridge, connecting the port metropolis of Henichesk and the slender Arabat Spit on Crimea&#8217;s north-east coast, had been shelled. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-19j92fr ebmt73l0\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-hhl7in e17g058b0\">A civilian driver was damage and a gasoline pipeline was broken, leaving 20,000 individuals with out gasoline. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" class=\"e1wxwc760 bbc-1bh6w8m ebmt73l0\">\n<figure class=\"bbc-1qdcvv9 e1aczekt0\">\n<div class=\"bbc-rl27ak e1p9mbna1\"><amp-iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin\" layout=\"fill\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/polling.bbc.co.uk\/ws\/av-embeds\/cps\/news\/world-europe-66419331\/p0g50gsm\/en-GB\/amp\" title=\"Media player\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-e2e=\"media-player\"><noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"bbc-1b4920d e1cpbhy72\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/512xn\/p0g50hd4.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/240xn\/p0g50hd4.jpg 240w, https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/320xn\/p0g50hd4.jpg 320w, https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/480xn\/p0g50hd4.jpg 480w, https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/624xn\/p0g50hd4.jpg 624w, https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/800xn\/p0g50hd4.jpg 800w\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"bbc-1k5stce e1cpbhy70\">To play this content material, please allow JavaScript, or attempt a special browser<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/noscript><\/amp-iframe><\/div><figcaption dir=\"ltr\" class=\"bbc-1woqkw9 e6i104o0\"><span class=\"bbc-m04vo2\">Video caption, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Watch the ocean drone hitting the tanker, based on Ukraine safety sources<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-66419331.amp\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jaroslav Lukiv BBC Information 5 August 2023 Up to date 1 hour in the past Picture supply, Telegram\/Volodymyr Zelensky Picture caption, President Zelensky posted a photograph purportedly displaying Kupiansk&#8217;s blood transfusion centre on fireplace after the Russian assault A Russian &#8220;guided bomb&#8221; has hit a blood transfusion centre in north-eastern Ukraine, killing two individuals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3099,870,819,603,3725,105,106,939],"class_list":["post-3070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-blood","tag-centre","tag-hits","tag-russia","tag-transfusion","tag-ukraine","tag-war","tag-zelensky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}