Russia accused the Ukrainian army on Saturday of killing 14 people and injuring 24 others during the bombing of a hospital in Luhansk region, in the separatist east of Ukraine, AFP and EFE reported.

On Saturday morning, the Ukrainian armed forces “deliberately hit the building of a local hospital” in the city of Novoaidar, Luhansk region, using the Khymars multiple-launch rocket systems, the Russian army said in a statement.

The attack “resulted in 14 deaths and 24 injuries among patients and medical staff,” the report said.

For several months, the hospital’s doctors provided medical assistance to the civilian population, as well as to the military, the same source reported.

“The intentional bombing of a well-known civilian hospital is undoubtedly a serious crime by the Kyiv regime,” the statement also emphasizes.

Almost a year ago, Russia launched a large-scale invasion of Ukraine, which it calls a “special military operation”, which Kyiv and the West describe as an unprovoked and unjustified aggression, the first of its kind in Europe since World War II. War.

(source: Agerpres)