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Russian and Ukrainian forces escalated their attacks following a strike by Kyiv on a Russian tanker in the Black Sea. In the fresh deadly air raids, a blood transfusion centre, a university and an aeronautics facility in Ukraine have been damaged.

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00:00 Russian and Ukrainian forces escalated their attacks following a strike by Kiev on a Russian
00:08 tanker in the Black Sea.
00:10 In the fresh, deadly air raids, a blood transfusion centre, a university and an aeronautics facility
00:17 in Ukraine have been damaged.
00:19 The attacks late on Saturday came as senior officials from 40 countries, including China,
00:24 India and the US, held talks in Saudi Arabia on how to end the war in Ukraine.
00:30 Russian forces struck the blood transfusion centre in the Kharkiv region of north-east
00:35 Ukraine.
00:36 Calling the attack a war crime, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy informed that
00:41 the dead and the wounded are reported.
00:43 A guided air bomb hit the centre in Popyanka, a city a few dozen kilometres from the Russian
00:49 border.
00:50 The strike came shortly after Zelenskyy said Russian missiles had hit a facility of the
00:54 Ukrainian aeronautics group Motor Sich, a maker of plane and helicopter engines and
00:59 other components.
01:00 It is one of several companies requisitioned by the government since Moscow's invasion.
01:06 The Motor Sich site is near Khmelnytskyi in western Ukraine, around 300 kilometres southwest
01:11 of Kiev.
01:12 The region, home to a major Ukrainian airbase, has been regularly targeted by Russian strikes
01:17 in recent months.
01:19 Russian officials blamed Russia for the attack on the blood centre in the eastern town of
01:22 Popyanka late on Saturday, while Moscow-installed officials accused Kiev of using cluster munitions
01:29 to damage a university in the Russian-controlled Donetsk region.
01:33 Hours after Zelenskyy's report, the Moscow-installed governor of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine said
01:38 a university building in the area was in flames due to Ukrainian shelling.
01:42 He said preliminary information indicated the cause of the fire was the controversial
01:46 cluster munitions.
01:47 Earlier Saturday, Ukraine claimed it blew up a Russian tanker, the SIG, that was transporting
01:53 fuel for Russian troops.
01:55 The ship was hauled at the waterline in the area of the engine room but was still afloat.
01:59 The Ukrainian sources said the successful special operation, which involved a naval
02:03 drone and explosives, was carried out jointly with the navy in Ukrainian territorial waters.
02:09 The SIG oil and chemical tanker is under US sanctions for supplying jet fuel to Russian
02:13 forces in Syria, who are supporting President Bashar al-Assad.
02:17 The Russian foreign ministry condemned the attack on a civilian vessel, adding that the
02:21 crew had not been injured.
02:23 With both sides focused on winning on the battlefield, any chance to secure peace looks
02:28 thin.
02:29 Saudi Arabia is nevertheless holding talks on the war with representatives from nearly
02:33 40 countries, including China, India and South Africa, but not Russia.
02:38 The talks concluded Saturday and as expected, no final declaration was released.
02:43 But a European source said they had with agreement that respect for Ukraine's territorial integrity
02:48 and sovereignty should be at the heart of any peace settlement.
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