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A Russian missile strike on civilian targets in the West of the country has killed an eight-year old boy. That’s according to a Ukrainian prosecutor. Meantime, there were explosions reported in the capital of Kyiv this Friday prompting an air-raid alert. Fragments of a missile crashed into a children’s hospital in the capital. FRANCE 24’s Andrew Hilliar has the latest.
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Source: France24
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