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LVIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian officers accused Russia destructive a most cancers health center and several other residential structures within the southern town of Mykolaiv with shelling from heavy artillery.

The health center’s head physician, Maksim Beznosenko, stated a number of hundred sufferers have been within the health center all over the assault however that nobody was once killed. The attack broken the construction and blew out home windows.

Russian forces have stepped up their assaults on Mykolaiv, situated 470 kilometers (292 miles) south of Kyiv, in an try to encircle the town.

Ukrainian and Western officers previous accused Russia of shelling a maternity health center within the southern town of Mariupol on Wednesday. 3 folks died in that assault.

LVIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia on Friday of kidnapping the mayor of the town of Melitopol, equating it to the movements of “ISIS terrorists.”

“They’ve transitioned into a brand new level of terror, during which they are attempting to bodily liquidate representatives of Ukraine’s lawful native government,” Zelenskyy stated in a video cope with Friday night time.

Kirill Timoshenko, the deputy head of Ukraine’s presidential administrative center, posted a video at the social media website Telegram which he stated confirmed a bunch of armed males sporting the mayor, Ivan Fedorov, throughout a sq..