Seventeen killed in Ukraine's Chernihiv in Russia's deadliest air strike in weeks


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  • Wednesday, 17 Apr 2024

Rescuers work at the site of a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Chernihiv, Ukraine April 17, 2024. Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine/Handout via REUTERS

CHERNIHIV, Ukraine (Reuters) -Three Russian missiles slammed into the city centre of Chernihiv in northern Ukraine on Wednesday, killing at least 17 people, wounding dozens more and damaging civilian buildings, officials said.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on Kyiv's allies to rush in air defence support after the city, which had a pre-war population of 300,000, became the latest target of an intensifying Russian air strike campaign.

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