London – Ukraine accused Russia of having committed a war crime after a Russian drone hit a military hospital in Kharkiv overnight.
The Ukraine staff said that strikes were a “deliberate and targeted strike” from the hospital and that it seemed that soldiers were treated there were injured. He said the medical center and nearby residential buildings were damaged following a “defeat of a” Russian drone Shahed.
The photos of the scene seem to show damage to the hospital, with a demolished entry route.
Russian drones have also struck apartments and a shopping center in the center of the second largest city in Ukraine, killing at least two people and injuring 25, according to the governor of Kharkiv.
“War crimes have no limitation period. Relevant evidence will be transferred to international criminal justice organizations,” the general staff wrote in a statement on the hospital attack.
The firefighters keeping a pipe to put out a fire following a drone attack in Kharkiv on March 29, 2025, in the middle of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Ukrainian quotes are bombed by dozens of Russian drones each evening, and this weekend has experienced a wave of particularly intense attacks in civil zones in big cities. Dnipro, in south-eastern Ukraine, suffered major strikes on Friday evening that sparked major fires.
On Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that last week, Russia launched more than 1,000 drones, nine missiles and more than 1,300 guided air bombs, most regions of Ukraine being attacked. He said Ukraine had shot down a “significant number” of drones and missiles.
“Russia leads to war,” Zelenskyy wrote in a statement on X, saying that Ukraine had shared information about Russia’s strikes with its allies and that it expects a “response from the United States, Europe and all our allies to this terror against our people”.
Russia has also intensified its offensive operations on the ground in recent days among the military of Ukraine, in the midst of the ongoing efforts of the Trump administration to end the war.
The Ukraine staff as well as the report of Ukrainian military analysts in recent days, Russia has launched some of the largest grounds of ground assault since the start of the year.
A man looks at a car destroyed in a Russian strike on Kharkiv, Ukraine, Saturday March 29, 2025.
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“The number of enemy attacks has exceeded 200 times a day in the last three days,” a blog account followed on Friday and is close to the Ukrainian army. This is the highest intensity of three days of the year. “”
He follows warnings this week by Zelenskyy that Russia is preparing to launch a major spring offensive, even if he tries to negotiate with the Trump administration.
Russian attacks are mainly concentrated in eastern Ukraine, in the direction of Pokrovsk, an important defensive center that Russia has been trying to grasp for more than 6 months.
Russian forces had reduced their attacks in recent weeks due to poor earth conditions and apparently also used by extremely heavy losses. But it seems that they now renew their offensive operations.
Ukrainian and Western officials have warned that President Vladimir Putin of Russia will try to use prolonged negotiations as an opportunity to also progress on the battlefield, hoping to break the defenses of Ukraine while the Trump administration weakens Western support in kyiv.
