Three Red Cross workers have been killed in an alleged Russian artillery strike in eastern Ukraine which hit their lorry and left it engulfed in flames.
The three Ukrainians died as they prepared to unload wood and coal briquettes to vulnerable households in the village of Virolyubivka, about seven miles from the front line in the Donetsk region.
“Another Russian war crime. Today, the occupier attacked vehicles of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) humanitarian mission in the Donetsk region,” President Zelensky said on X.
Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, president of the ICRC, said in a statement confirming the deaths that it was “unconscionable that shelling would hit an aid distribution site”.
“Our hearts are broken today as we mourn the loss of our