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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Shweta Sharma,Maanya Sachdeva and Matt Mathers

Ukraine-Russia war – live: Putin’s forces launch missile strike on Cherniv, killing 7 and injuring 90

Reuters

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Ukraine has said that a Russian missile strike in the northern city of Chernihiv has killed seven people and injured 144 others, as five people were injured in a Ukrainian drone in the Russian city of Kursk.

Around 15 children, including a six-year-old girl, and 15 police officers were among the dead following the strike, which hit a central square in the historic city, about 92 miles northeast of the capital, Kyiv, as locals walked to church to celebrate a religious holiday.

Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed the news while on a visit to Sweden on Saturday.  “An ordinary Saturday, which Russia turned into a day of pain and loss,” he wrote on the Telegram messaging service.

Ukraine’s Air Force said Vladimir Putin’s troops used Iranian-made Shahed drones to attack targets in the country’s central, northern and western regions.

It comes as a Ukrainian drone crashed into the rooftop of a railway station in the Russian city of Kursk, injuring five people and setting off a fire, the TASS news agency said on Sunday, citing regional governor Roman Starovoit.

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