Red Cross aid depot destroyed by Russian cruise missile in ‘war crime’ blitz
A Red Cross aid depot was destroyed by a Russian cruise missile in a blitz condemned as a war crime.
A lone night watchman was killed when thousands of tons of food and water supplies were engulfed in a days-long inferno in southern Ukraine.
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The Red Cross stopped distributing food and said a hospital was also hit elsewhere
The strictly neutral charity refused to say who fired the rockets, but issued an angry statement about attacks on its sites and employees.
A thinly veiled message to Russian President Vladimir Putin said: “The population, humanitarian organizations, hospitals are not targets.
“Attacks on staff and facilities of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement constitute a gross violation of international humanitarian law and are classified as WAR CRIMES.”
The strikes came like Putin prepared for Moscow’s annual Victory Parade today on Red Square to commemorate the victory over Hitler in 1945.
At the three-story relief center in Odessa, The Sun watched as grim rescuers pulled a man’s remains from the ashes while firefighters battled the blaze.
Mountains of canned goods, bean bags and drinking water crates had been burned in the destroyed building.
The charity said: “The fire completely destroyed the humanitarian aid that was in the camp.”
Ukraine said Russia had unleashed a total of at least 60 suicide drones — machines loaded with explosives and designed to hit targets — with new attacks.
Sixteen rockets and missiles, including eight X-22s from long-range bombers, were also launched by Putin’s forces
In KyivThe capital’s air defense batteries shot down 35 of the disposable drones in a spectacular two-fingered shot at Putin.
But in the southern port of Mikolayiv, a rocket blast ripped through a mobile hospital.
The Red Cross said its staff are still assessing the damage, but some equipment is unusable.
Governor Vitaliy Kim said at least five cruise missiles hit his city.
It came as the EU proposed new sanctions against Chinese and other companies supporting Putin’s war machine against the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyyz powers.
companies in China, Hong Kong, Iran and the UAE are suspected of helping as middlemen Moscow buys hi-tech parts for rockets and bombs.
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