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October 6, 2023

Ukraine Says 51 Killed in Russian Missile Attack on Kharkiv Village  
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Ukraine says 51 people were killed and six others wounded Thursday as a
Russian missile struck a store and cafe in a village in the northeastern
Kharkiv region. President Volodymyr Zelensky said the Russian assault
was no accident.

President Volodymyr Zelensky: "The Russian military could not have been
unaware of where they were hitting. And it was not a blind strike.
People gathered there for a wake, a Christian memorial dinner. Who could
launch a missile at them? Who? Only absolute evil. More than 50 people
died. Among them was a child, a boy, 6 years old."'

Separately, officials said a Russian strike on residential buildings in
Kharkiv killed a 10-year-old boy and his grandmother, while injuring 26
others. And Russian drones attacked a port in Ukraine's Odesa region
early Friday, damaging a grain silo near the Danube River. 


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