<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Russian forces struck a blood transfusion centre in the Kharkiv region of northeast Ukraine, the country's President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday, adding that "dead and wounded are reported".</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A "guided air bomb" hit the centre in Kupiansk, a city a few dozen kilometres from the Russian border, Zelensky said on social media.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Rescuers are extinguishing the fire," he said, adding: "This war crime alone says everything about Russian aggression."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The reported strike came shortly after Zelensky said Russian missiles had hit a facility of the Ukrainian aeronautics group Motor Sich, one of several companies requisitioned by the government since Moscow's invasion.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Motor Sich site was near Khmelnytskyi in western Ukraine, around 300 kilometres (190 miles) southwest of Kyiv.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Khmelnytskyi region, hundreds of kilometres from the front lines of the fighting and home to a major Ukrainian airbase, has been regularly targeted by Russian strikes in recent months.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Russian attacks came after Ukraine carried out a drone strike overnight on a Russian tanker in the Kerch Strait, a day after another Russian ship was hit in the Black Sea. AFP</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>