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WW3: Heavy Russian shelling hit orphanage in Ukraine

An orphanage in Vorzel, a small town about 40km from Kyiv, has been hit by heavy Russian shelling, Ukraine’s prosecutor general has said.

Iryna Venediktova wrote on Facebook that debris from a Russian missile hit an orphanage in the town which houses 50 children.

She said there were no casualties and noted that “measures are being taken on their evacuation”.

At the same time, Ukrainian officials announced that a number of children had been injured by Russian shelling of the town of Okhtyrka in the eastern Sumy Oblast.

Dmytro Zhyvytskyy, head of the regional military administration, said that a residential area, several bomb shelters and a kindergarten had been hit by an artillery barrage.

Source: BBC

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