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Russian artillery strike kills 70 Ukrainian soldiers

| @indiablooms | Mar 01, 2022, at 07:50 pm

Kyiv/UNI: More than 70 Ukrainian soldiers were killed after the Russian artillery hit a military base in Okhtyrka, a city between Kharkiv and Kyiv, on Tuesday.

Dmytro Zhyvytskyy, head of the region, has posted photographs on Telegram of the charred shell of a four-story building and rescuers searching rubble.

Several Russian soldiers and some local residents were also killed during the fighting on Sunday, he said in a Facebook post.

Earlier, The Guardian reported a military base on fire in Brovary, near Kyiv, after a reported airstrike on Monday night.

There were also reports of air raid sirens sounded on Tuesday morning in Rivne west of Kyiv, along with Ternopil, Vinnytsia and Volyn.

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