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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Peter Beaumont in Zaporizhzhia

‘Deliberate war crime’: horror as Russian missile hits civilian convoy

The site of the Russian missile attack outside the city of Zaporizhzhia
The site of the Russian missile attack outside the city of Zaporizhzhia. Photograph: AP

In the dirt car park of a sprawling car parts market just outside the city of Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, the bodies told horrific stories of the moment a Russian missile struck a civilian convoy, killing 25 and injuring scores more.

A man in late middle age was slumped inside his car, one hand holding the steering wheel. Not far away, partially covered in a sheet, another person appeared to be kneeling, collapsed next to the wheelie case they had been pulling.

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