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Ukraine says over 1,200 health facilities damaged since start of war

This photograph shows a room in a damaged hospital building in the liberated village of Petropavlivka near Kupiansk, Kharkiv region on December 15, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. © Sergey Bobok, AFP

According to Ukrainian Health Minister VIktor Liashko, 1,218 Ukrainian health facilities have been damaged, including 540 damaged hospitals, 173 of which were totally destroyed. The leader of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner said Sunday that his troops had taken an eastern Ukrainian village a few kilometres from the key city of Bakhmut which Moscow has been trying to capture for months. Read our live blog to see how all the day's events unfolded. All times are Paris time (GMT+1). 

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