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Russian strikes kill at least five in Ukraine

Missiles, shelling take lives in Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk

Updated 1 year ago · Published on 09 Mar 2023 6:00PM

Russian strikes kill at least five in Ukraine
Ukrainian servicemen firing a 105mm howitzer towards Russian positions near the city of Bakhmut yesterday, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. – AFP pic, March 9, 2023

KYIV – Ukrainian officials said today that massive overnight strikes by Russia had killed at least five people in both western and eastern regions.

The governor of Ukraine’s western Lviv region said that four people were killed when a missile hit their house, while the governor of the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region said that a 34-year-old man had been killed.

“At this moment, it is known that there are four dead. These are four adults. Two men and two women,” Lviv regional governor Maksym Kozytski wrote on Telegram, saying a missile had hit their home in the Zolochiv district west of the city of Lviv.

In the Dnipropetrovsk region, a “34-year-old man died as a result of the shelling. A 28-year-old woman and a 19-year-old boy were injured. They were hospitalised”, regional governor Sergiy Lysak wrote on Telegram. – AFP, March 9, 2023

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