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"At least 17 people have been killed and dozens injured after three Russian
missiles hit the centre of Chernihiv, a city in northern Ukraine near the
Russian border.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on Kyiv’s allies to send air defence
support after Chernihiv, which had a prewar population of 300,000, became the
latest target of an intensifying Russian airstrike campaign. “This would not
have happened if Ukraine had received sufficient air defence equipment and if
the world’s determination to counter Russian terror had been sufficient,”
Zelenskiy wrote on Telegram.
Videos showed flames and columns of black smoke rising over Chernihiv, which is
about 90 miles (150km) from the capital, Kyiv.
Three explosions ripped through a busy central area of the city shortly after
9am local time, destroying a hotel, officials said. The strike also damaged
several multistorey residential buildings, a hospital, an education facility
and dozens of private cars.
“Unfortunately, Russia continues to engage in terrorist activity against
civilians and civilian infrastructure as confirmed by this strike on Chernihiv
once again,” the acting mayor, Oleksandr Lomako, said on national television.
He said more than 60 people, including three children, had been wounded.
The regional governor, Vyacheslav Chaus, told the public broadcaster Suspilne
that Russia had attacked Chernihiv with three Iskander cruise missiles."
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