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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Hanna Arhirova

Rescuers pull bodies from rubble as Ukraine's death toll rises to 22 from a Russian missile strike

Locals and rescuers clear the rubble of a residential building destroyed in a Russian missile strike, in photos - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Rescuers searched through the rubble of a residential building hit by a Russian missile in the northern Ukrainian town of Pryluky on Thursday as the death toll rose to 22, including five children, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said.

The strike Wednesday in the country's Chernihiv region also injured 54 people, seven of them children, the agency said. In the immediate aftermath, rescuers had pulled 15 survivors out, including a child.

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