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Massive Russian strike kills at least ten

21 articles | Updated 5d ago | Created Mar 07
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At least eight people were killed when Russia launched an aerial assault that targeted a five-story residential building in Ukraine's second-largest city, while regional authorities confirmed the death toll reached over one hundred and injured forty others. The overnight attack involved twenty-nine missiles including hypersonic Zircon anti-ship weapons alongside four-hundred eighty drones aimed at energy facilities, railway networks across several oblasts such as Cherkasy Oblast where a home was destroyed with children among those wounded in addition to Kharkiv apartment block struck by ballistic missile and infrastructure sites burning. President Zelenskyy stated that defense systems successfully intercepted hundreds of incoming projectiles during the coordinated assault which also targeted civilian sectors including mothers, young children living near residential buildings hit hard on Saturday morning as fires erupted at railway stations across Zhytomyr Oblast alongside energy grids in Odesa region following this latest escalation over past day.

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    A coordinated Russian assault involving over 480 drones and at least five hundred weapons targeted Ukrainian energy sectors and residential areas on March 7.
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    At least ten civilians were killed by missile strikes in Kharkiv during Saturday's attacks, including two children who died from the blast that destroyed a high-rise apartment building.
Mar 8
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