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Four people were killed and 14 injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine last day

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Four people were killed and 14 injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine over the past day, regional authorities said on June 20.

Russia targeted a total of 13 Ukrainian oblasts – Chernihiv, Mykolaiv, Luhansk, Lviv, Vinnytsia, Kirovohrad, Kyiv, Zaporizhia, Sumy, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv and Donetsk. Casualties were reported in the last four regions.

The districts of Pokrovsk, Bakhmut and Kramatorsk came under Russian attack in Donetsk Oblastsaid Governor Vadym Filashkin.

According to him, two people were killed in the city of Toretsk and the village of Rozkishne. Four other residents of the region were injured, Filashkin said.

Three men aged 30, 41 and 63 were killed in a Russian attack on Dnipropetrovsk Oblast overnight, said Governor Serhii Lysak. Two of them were hospitalized in moderate condition.

According to the governor, seven houses, five outbuildings, power lines, building equipment and a car were damaged in the attack.

In Kharkiv OblastTwo men and a woman were injured in Russian air strikes on the villages of Novoosynove and Kruhliakivka in Kupiansk district, Governor Oleh Syniehubov reported.

According to local authorities, one woman was killed and one man injured in an attack on the village of Vilkhivka, and ten houses were damaged.

Russian attacks against Kherson Oblast Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said 14 houses, two high-rise buildings, a pipeline, a farm and the grounds of a shopping center were damaged. One person was killed and three injured in the region last day, said Prokudin.

Russia fired nine missiles and 27 drones at Ukraine on the night of June 20, damaging energy infrastructure in the Vinnytsia, Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk regions. Ukraine shot down all drones and five missiles, the Air Force reported.

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