A RED Cross assist depot was destroyed by a Russian cruise missile in a blitz condemned as a conflict crime.
A lone evening watchman was killed as hundreds of ton of meals and water provides had been engulfed by a day-long inferno in southern Ukraine.
The Purple Cross halted meals handouts and stated a hospital was additionally hit elsewhere
The fiercely impartial charity refused to say who fired the missiles nevertheless it issued a livid assertion about assaults on its websites and its workers.
In a thinly veiled message to Russia’s chief Vladimir Putin, it stated: “The inhabitants, humanitarian organisations, hospitals will not be targets.
“Assaults on staff and establishments of the Worldwide Purple Cross and Purple Crescent Motion are a gross violation of worldwide humanitarian regulation and are categorized as a WAR CRIME.”
The strikes got here as Putin ready for Moscow’s annual Victory Day parade in Purple Sq. right this moment to commemorate beating Hitler in 1945.
On the three-storey assist centre in Odesa, The Solar watched grim-faced rescuers haul a person’s stays from the ashes as firefighters battled the blaze.
Contained in the wrecked constructing, mountains of tinned meals, sacks of beans and crates of consuming water had been burnt.
The charity stated: “The hearth fully destroyed the humanitarian assist that was within the warehouse.”
Ukraine stated Russia unleashed in whole a minimum of 60 suicide drones — machines full of explosives and designed to crash into targets — throughout recent assaults.
Sixteen rockets and missiles, together with eight X-22s from long-range bombers, had been additionally launched by Putin’s forces
In Kyiv, the capital’s air defence batteries downed 35 of the one-way drones in a spectacular two fingers to Putin.
However within the southern port of Mikolaiv, a missile blast ripped via a cellular hospital.
The Purple Cross stated its workers had been nonetheless assessing the harm however some gear was unusable.
Governor Vitaliy Kim stated a minimum of 5 cruise missiles had pounded his metropolis.
It got here because the EU proposed recent sanctions on Chinese language and different companies serving to Putin’s conflict machine in opposition to Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky’s forces.
Corporations in China, Hong Kong, Iran and the UAE are suspected of performing as middle-men to assist Moscow purchase hi-tech elements for missiles and bombs.