At least 16 people have been killed after three Russian missiles hit the centre of Chernihiv, a city in northern Ukraine near the Russian border, in an attack that wounded dozens more.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on Kyiv’s allies to send air defence support after Chernihiv, which had a prewar population of 300,000, became the latest target of an intensifying Russian airstrike campaign.
Three explosions ripped through a busy central area of the city just after 9am (0700 GMT), destroying a hotel, officials said. The strike also damaged several multistorey residential buildings, a hospital, an education facility and dozens of private cars.
Russia, which denies targeting civilians, attacked Chernihiv with three Iskander cruise missiles, the governor Vyacheslav Chaus told the Suspilne public broadcaster
Three Russian missiles hit Chernihiv, killing and wounding civilians
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