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Russian attack hits medical facility in Kharkiv, injuring more than 60 people

A healthcare facility in Kharkiv, Ukraine, has been hit by a Russian attack. More than 60 people are reported to have been injured.

Shortly after 2 a.m. on Tuesday, Mayor Ihor Terekhov warned of incoming Russian attacks. Less than half an hour later, he announced that a medical facility had been hit.

“As a result of the attack on a medical facility in the Nemyshlyansky district, more than 1,000 windows in the hospital building and surrounding high-rise buildings were damaged,” he wrote on Telegram.

In the morning, Kharkiv Governor Oleh Synyehubov announced that more than 60 people had been injured.

The building was reportedly seriously damaged. More than 220 patients are now being evacuated to other clinics, Synyehubov wrote on Telegram.

According to Interfax, Russia’s Defense Ministry said that the country’s military had attacked energy facilities in Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Vinnytsia during the night.

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