Rockets strike HQ of Kiev military in east, many wounded - President


KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's military headquarters in the east of the country and a nearby residential area were hit by powerful rocket strikes on Tuesday and there were many wounded among army personnel and civilians, President Petro Poroshenko said.

A Reuters photographer reported seeing the body of one dead woman after one rocket attack in Kramatorsk, a town about 50 km (30 miles) from front-lines and from where Kiev's military directs its campaign against pro-Russian separatists.

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