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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Arpan Rai

Putin deliberately attacked Ukrainian civilians in Kharkiv missile strike, says Zelensky

Ukrainian Presidential Press Office

Vladimir Putin’s missile attack on a cafe and grocery store in northeastern Ukraine that led to 51 deaths, six injuries and three people left missing was “no blind strike”, said president Volodymyr Zelensky.

The strike is the deadliest in the Kharkiv region since Mr Putin’s Ukraine invasion and also among the biggest civilian death tolls in any single Russian missile attack, especially after January this year.

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