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Russia continues attacks on Ukraine, strikes city of Sloviansk
Two people were injured in a Russian-led strike on the Ukrainian city of Sloviansk on Sunday, local authorities said. The fire that broke out after the attack was extinguished by firefighters, AA reports, KosovaPress reports. The missile, which targeted a residential area, also damaged surrounding buildings, and medical teams that arrived at the scene after the attack took the wounded to hospital. The latest attack comes after a Russian drone hit a bus carrying workers in the town of Marhanets early this morning, killing at least nine people. The full extent of the attack, which kept Kiev and the eastern half of Ukraine awake for several hours overnight, was not immediately known. "The Russians attacked a bus with company employees going to work in Marhanets," said Mykola Lukashuk, chairman of the Dnipropetrovsk regional council. Serhiy Lisak, governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, which includes Marhanets, in central and southern Ukraine, said nine people were killed and at least 30 were injured. In Kharkiv, Poltava, Odessa, Kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions, another night of Russian drone attacks targeting civilians and critical infrastructure was spent. Ukraine’s emergency services said there was also an attack in the Sinelnikivsky district of the Dnipropetrovsk region, in which two people were injured and a fire broke out at an agricultural enterprise. Russia also carried out a “massive” drone attack in the central Ukrainian region of Poltava, injuring at least six people, emergency services said. Two people were injured in a drone attack on civilian infrastructure on the outskirts of the city of Odessa, which also caused several fires, said Oleh Kiper, governor of Ukraine’s southern Odessa region. Large fires also broke out as a result of a Russian drone attack in Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said on Telegram. Air defense units were also engaged in repelling attacks in the Kiev region, but there were no reports of possible damage.
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