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Russian Missile Strike Kills 10 Civilians in Ukraine’s Kharkiv Region
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In Short: A Russian missile strike in Pechenihy, Kharkiv Oblast, killed 10 civilians and injured 17 others, destroying homes and causing widespread damage.
A Russian missile strike in Pechenihy, Kharkiv Oblast, killed 10 civilians and injured 17 others, destroying homes and causing widespread damage, according to Ukrainian officials.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called it a 'brutal attack' that damaged 10 homes, a cafe, a post office, a store, and at least seven vehicles, and vowed a response.
The strike comes amid ongoing Russian air defenses intercepting hundreds of Ukrainian drones, part of a strategy to overwhelm Russian defenses.
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- A Russian missile strike on a village in northeastern Ukraine’s Kharkiv region killed at least 10 people and wounded 17 others as the barrage demolished homes, officials said. (AP video shot by: Andrii Marienko) A…
- Russian air defenses overnight intercepted 791 Ukrainian drones over a number of regions, as well as annexed Crimea and the Black and the Azov seas, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said, in what was the second-largest…
- Ukraine has increasingly launched swarms of hundreds of drones to try to overwhelm Russian air defenses.
- A Russian missile strike on the village of Pechenihy in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region killed 10 civilians, according to preliminary information, said Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv regional military administration.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called it “a brutal attack” that damaged 10 homes, a cafe, a post office, a store and at least seven vehicles, according to Syniehubov.
- “We will definitely respond to this Russian strike,” he said on social media.
- Also, three people were killed and three others were wounded over the past day in Russian attacks on Ukraine’s Sumy region, Ukraine’s National Police said.
- British Prime Minister Andy Burnham, who took office last month, said the U.K. will continue to stand by Ukraine after Russia said that Kyiv’s reported use of British drones for attacks on Russian soil would bring…