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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Valentyn Ogirenko and Olena Harmash

Girl unable to enter Kyiv shelter killed in Russia attack, Zelenskiy demands change

Local residents react near the body of a person killed in a Russian missile strike, at the compound of a municipal clinic, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine June 1, 2023. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

A nine-year-old Ukrainian girl, her mother and another woman were killed in a Russian missile strike on Kyiv on Thursday after the air raid shelter they rushed to failed to open, witnesses said.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy expressed frustration at the miscue and said if local officials were unable to provide protection, they could be prosecuted.

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