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5 killed in Russian shelling in east Ukraine, Donetsk governor says

By AFP 9 April 2022, 11:08 pm
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A woman pulls her bags past houses damaged during a fighting in Mariupol, on the territory which is now under the Government of the Donetsk People's Republic control, eastern in Mariupol, Ukraine, on April 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)
A woman pulls her bags past houses damaged during a fighting in Mariupol, on the territory which is now under the Government of the Donetsk People's Republic control, eastern in Mariupol, Ukraine, on April 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

KYIV — Russian shelling killed five civilians and wounded five others in two east Ukrainian cities Saturday, the local governor says on Telegram.

“Today, five people were killed after Russian shelling in the region of Donetsk,” the Donetsk governor, Pavlo Kyrylenko, posts on Telegram. Four of them died in the city of Vugledar, and one in the town of Novomikhaylovka, he adds.

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