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A six-year-old girl is among the dead and her mother seriously injured as Russia kills five and wounds 37 in an artillery attack on the Ukrainian city of Chernihiv
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A six-year-old girl is among the dead after a Russian missile hit the central square of the city of Chernihiv in northern Ukraine.
At least six people were killed and dozens injured following the strike which hit a university building and a theatre.
Residents were going to church to celebrate a religious holiday when the strike took place, the ministry said.
“A Russian missile hit right in the center of the city, in our Chernihiv. A square, the polytechnic university, a theatre,” President Volodymyr Zelensky, who was on a working visit to Sweden, said on Telegram.
“An ordinary Saturday, which Russia turned into a day of pain and loss.”
The Ukrainian President added: “This is what a neighborhood with a terrorist state is, this is what we unite the whole world against.
National Police of Ukraine, firefighters work at Taras Shevchenko Chernihiv Regional Academic Music and Drama Theater damaged by Russian attack in Chernihiv
An ambulance is pictured near the site of a Russian missile strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Chernihiv
Firefighters rush to the scene in Chernihiv where the missile strike took place
A short video accompanying Zelenskiy’s post showed debris strewn across a plaza outside the regional drama theatre, where parked cars were heavily damaged.
A body could also be briefly seen in the video slumped inside a car.
The Chernihiv center has since been closed to allow emergency services access to the area.
Russia has attacked Ukrainian towns far from the front line with missiles and drones as part of its full-scale invasion launched in February 2022.
Chernihiv, located near the Belarusian border, was occupied by Russian forces at the start of Moscow’s assault on Ukraine. He was later liberated and recaptured by Kyiv forces.
An emergency service worker stands at the site of a Russian missile strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Chernihiv
A view shows the site of a Russian missile strike, where five were killed and dozens were injured
Amid the strike on the Ukrainian city, Russia claimed on Saturday that it foiled a Kiev drone attack on a military airfield in the Novgorod region, a previously untargeted area between Moscow and St Petersburg.
“Today around 10 a.m. Moscow time, the Kiev regime carried out a terrorist attack using a helicopter-like drone on a military airfield in the Novgorod region,” the military said. Russian in a statement. He said he was shot “by small arms”.
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