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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/06/russian-strike-on-crowded-ukraine-market-leaves-many-dead-blinken-visit>
"A Russian strike has hit a crowded market in the Ukrainian city of
Kostiantynivka, killing at least 17 people, as the US secretary of state,
Antony Blinken, was in Kyiv for an unannounced visit, his first for a year to
the Ukrainian capital.
Ukrainian officials said a further 32 people were wounded in the attack, one of
Russia’s deadliest attacks in months, 12 miles (20km) from the frontlines in
the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine.
Video of the aftermath showed fires raging in destroyed buildings and soldiers
carrying body bags away from the scene. The Ukrainian prime minister, Denys
Shmyhal, said a child was among those killed.
“A regular market. Shops. A pharmacy. People who did nothing wrong. Many
wounded,” the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, wrote in a post on
Telegram.
He called the strike “a terrorist attack” and said in a later press conference
that it reflected the situation on the battlefield. “Whenever there are any
positive advances by Ukrainian defence forces in that direction, Russians
always target civilian people and civilian objects.”
Russia also targeted Kyiv with ballistic missiles in the hours prior to
Blinken’s arrival, with loud booms audible in the Ukrainian capital shortly
before 6am, as his train was approaching.
“It was clearly meant as a greeting to Blinken,” Mykhailo Podolyak, a key
adviser to Zelenskiy, told the Guardian. “Russia is constantly showing that it
will not abide by any rules,” Podolyak added.
He said Russia had used Iskander missiles in the Kyiv attack, which was
thwarted by Ukrainian air defences. Falling debris damaged building but there
were no casualties, officials said."
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