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Russia attacks Kyiv area for the first time in weeks
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KYIV, 29 July 2022, (TON): Russian forces launched a missile attack on the Kyiv area for the first time in weeks Thursday and pounded the northern Chernihiv region as well, in what Ukraine said was revenge for standing up to the Kremlin.
Ukrainian officials, meanwhile, announced a counteroffensive to take back the occupied Kherson region in the country’s south, territory seized by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces early in the war.
The Vyshgorod district on the outskirts of Kyiv was targeted early in the morning, and an infrastructure object was hit, regional Gov. Oleksiy Kuleba said on Telegram.
There was no immediate word on any casualties. Vyshgorod is 20 kilometers north of the capital’s center.
Kuleba linked the strikes to the Day of Statehood, a commemoration that President Volodymyr Zelensky instituted last year and Ukraine marked for the time.
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