LIVE UPDATES: Ukrainian HIMARS Strike on Melitopol Bridge Kills 5 People, Injures 4 Others

SIMFEROPOL, January 29 (Sputnik) - Five people died and four others were wounded as a result of a missile strike on a railway bridge in Melitopol, Vladimir Rogov, a member of the Zaporozhye regional administration's main council, said on Sunday.

According to preliminary data, the strike involved three HIMARS missiles, one of which was shot down.

The head of the Zaporozhye regional administration, Yevgeny Balitsky, noted that repair work was being carried out on the bridge at the time of the shelling.

Balitsky also expressed his deep condolences to the families of the victims, noting that the authorities would provide assistance to the relatives of those dead and injured.

Ukraine's missile strikes on hospitals in the city of Novaya Kakhovka and the town of Novoaydar are war crimes committed by Kiev and its Western allies, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday.

"The deliberate shelling of functioning civilian medical facilities and the targeted killing of civilians are grave war crimes by the Kiev regime and its Western masters," the foreign ministry said in a statement.

The United States and other NATO members have ignored these deadly incidents, which smacks of "their direct involvement in the conflict and complicity in the crimes that are being committed," the ministry said. Furthermore, international structures tasked with providing impartial assessment of such acts are also quiet about the recent attacks.

The ministry stressed that the West continues to pay no heed to the "barbaric actions" of the Kiev regime, which kills people using weapons made in the United States, France, Germany and the United Kingdom.

"All of these crime incidents caused by Kiev's armed formations under the patronage of the West will not go unpunished. They are being carefully recorded. The organizers and perpetrators will face inevitable punishment," the statement read.