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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Namita Singh

Ukraine-Russia war latest: Children killed while they slept among 25 dead in ‘vile birthday present’ for Putin

Russia pounded Ukraine with waves of missiles and drones in one of its most "vile strikes" on Wednesday, president Volodymyr Zelensky said, killing at least 25 people, including five children, injuring another 100 and damaging industrial facilities and energy infrastructure.

The heaviest death toll was in Pryluky in Ukraine's northern Chernihiv region, where a Russian missile obliterated a five-storey residential building.

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