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Strikes kill 19 in Ukraine’s Odessa
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KYIV, 02 July 2022, (TON): Missile strikes killed 19 people and wounded dozens in Ukraine’s Odessa region, a day after Russian troops abandoned positions on a strategic island in a major setback to the Kremlin’s invasion.
Two children were among the dead and six others among the injured, Ukrainian officials said, one day after US President Joe Biden announced $800 million in new weapons for Kyiv at a NATO summit.
The missiles slammed into an apartment building and a recreation center early Friday in the town of Serhiivka about 80 kilometers south of the Black Sea port of Odessa, which has become a strategic flashpoint in the conflict.
“The death toll is 19 people,” wrote Sergiy Kruk, head of the Ukrainian emergency services, on Facebook.
He added “thirty-eight people were wounded, including six children.”
Kyrylo Tymoshenko, a senior official at the Ukrainian presidency, earlier put the death toll at 18, including two children.
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