<div><b><br></b></div><div><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>Russia’s defense ministry on Saturday accused the Ukrainian army of striking a hospital in the eastern Lugansk region, leaving 14 dead and injuring 24 others.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Saturday morning in the town of Novoaidar, “the Ukrainian armed forces deliberately attacked the building of a district hospital” with a US-made HIMARS multiple-launch rocket system, the ministry said in a statement.</div><div><br></div><div>The ministry added that 14 were killed and 24 wounded among the “hospital patients and medical staff.”</div><div><br></div><div>It said that the hospital has been providing “necessary medical assistance to the local population and military personnel for many months,” reports AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“A deliberate missile strike on a known active civilian medical facility is, without doubt, a grave war crime by the Kyiv regime,” the ministry said.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>