War in Ukraine: clinic in Dnipro under Russian attack, at least one dead and 15 injured

“Crimes against humanity”. It was with these words that Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the Russian strike on a clinic in Dnipro on Friday morning. Authorities said at least one person was killed and fifteen people, including two children aged 3 and 6, were injured in a strike on a medical facility in central-eastern Ukraine.

The Ukrainian president posted a video on Telegram, which was picked up by the Kyiv Independent, showing badly damaged buildings and puffs of black smoke. “We must defeat these inhuman beings,” Zelensky said of the Russian military.

“Rescue of the wounded continues,” added the region’s governor, Sergei Lysak, on Telegram, the official who said the strike caused a fire in two houses. “The total fire area was 500 m2. Firefighters are fighting the fire,” he said.

Several Ukrainian Telegram channels have published videos in which rescuers help bloodied people to leave the clinic through littered corridors.

According to Sergei Lysak, his Dnipropetrovsk region was also subjected to “massive shelling” at night by Russian “rockets and drones.”

France condemns these “unacceptable” actions

“France condemns in the strongest possible terms the Russian missile and drone strikes that were once again targeted at Kyiv last night, as well as the Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions,” the French Foreign Ministry said after the attack.

“These strikes were once again deliberately delivered on civilian targets, including a hospital in Dnipro, which is a gross violation of international humanitarian law. The ministry speaks of “unacceptable acts that constitute war crimes” that “cannot go unpunished.”

Since early May, Russia has stepped up its air attacks, often at night, against Ukraine. Kyiv, the capital, has suffered thirteen nightly attacks since the start of the month, according to authorities who claim to have repelled them all.

For its part, Moscow has reported for the fifth day in a row about Ukrainian bombing of the Russian border region.

According to Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, over the past 24 hours, the Belgorod region has been subjected to dozens of artillery shelling, which caused material damage, but there were no casualties.