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Matt Watts

Day of mourning after 'brutal' Russian air strikes kill dozens

A day of mourning is being held in Ukraine after one of the worst waves of Russian missile strikes in months killed at least 41 and injured more than 170.Russian missiles blasted cities across Ukraine on Monday, damaging the country's largest children's hospital and other buildings in a fierce assault that interrupted heart surgeries and forced young cancer patients to take their treatments outdoors.

The daytime barrage targeted five Ukrainian cities with more than 40 missiles of different types, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on social media.

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