Russian missile attack kills four in Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih


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  • Friday, 17 Jan 2025

(Reuters) - A Russian missile attack killed at least four people and damaged an educational facility in the city of Kryvyi Rih in southern-central Ukraine on Friday, the regional governor said.

At least five others were hurt, and three of them were in a serious condition in hospital, Serhiy Lysak, the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, said on Telegram.

Two five-storey buildings were damaged and one caught fire, he said.

Several explosions reverberated through the city, witnesses said on social media, after Ukraine's air force warned of the threat of a ballistic missile attack from Russia-occupied Crimea.

Russia, which began it's full-scale invasion of Ukraine almost three years ago, did not immediately comment on the reports from Kryvyi Rih, the hometown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

(Reporting by Yuliia Dysa, Editing by Hugh Lawson and Timothy Heritage)

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