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At least 40 Ukrainian soldiers were killed following a Russian air strike on an army barracks in the southern city of Mykolaiv, according to local media reports cited by AFP.
The mayor of Mykolaiv Oleksandr Senkevich said on Facebook on Friday that several villages in the region had been occupied and the city had been under heavy fire, calling it a “difficult day”.
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