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Deadly Russian strike shatters Ukraine rail hub

by Oleksandr KHOROCHOUN Agence France-Presse CHAPLYNE, Ukraine (AFP) — “It’s such a shame for this boy, such a shame,” said Viktor, a resident of the Ukrainian city of Chaplyne, whose young neighbor was killed by a Russian strike. Russian missiles slammed into the town of 4,000 people, a railway hub in the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, killing 25 people including two children and injuring 31, the presidency said Thursday. “An 11-year-old boy was killed under the […]