Regional Gov. Oleh Kiper said that four children were among those wounded in the blasts, which severely damaged 25 landmarks across the city. They included the historic Transfiguration Cathedral.
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Vatican is moving ahead with plan to reunite Ukrainian children taken to Russia with their families
The Vatican’s initiative follows a similar one involving Russia-Ukraine prisoner swaps in which the Holy See delivered lists of prisoners to be exchanged, Francis has said.
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Russia bombards Odesa and other southern Ukraine port cities for 3rd night
The strikes killed at least two people in Odesa. In Mykolaiv, a city close to the Black Sea, at least 19 people were injured, including a child, Ukrainian officials said.
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Russia strikes Ukraine’s critical port facilities in Odesa after halting grain deal
Russia unleashed intense overnight drone and missile attacks that officials said damaged critical port infrastructure in southern Ukraine, including grain and oil terminals, and wounded at least 12 people.
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Russia targets Ukraine’s port of Odesa and calls it payback for strike on a key bridge to Crimea
The Russian military has sporadically hit Odesa and the neighboring region throughout the war, but Tuesday’s barrage was one of the biggest attacks on the area.
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Key Russian bridge to Crimea is struck again; Moscow blames Ukraine for attack
An attack before dawn damaged part of a bridge linking Russia to Moscow-annexed Crimea that is a key supply route for Kremlin forces in the war with Ukraine.
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Russia halts landmark deal that allowed Ukraine to export grain at time of growing hunger
Russia has halted a breakthrough wartime deal that allows grain to flow from Ukraine to countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia where hunger is a growing threat and high food prices have pushed people into poverty.
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Putin says Russia has ‘sufficient stockpile’ of cluster bombs as Ukraine gets its own supply from U.S.
The Pentagon said Thursday that cluster munitions provided by the United States had arrived in Ukraine.
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Thousands of Ukraine civilians are being held in Russian prisons. Russia plans to build many more
Nearby, in the occupied region of Zaporizhzhia, other Ukrainian civilians dug mass graves into the frozen ground for fellow prisoners who had not survived.
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Russia’s threat to pull out of Ukraine grain deal raises fears about global food security
The U.N. and others are striving to keep the fragile deal intact, with Ukraine and Russia both major suppliers of wheat, barley, vegetable oil and other food products that countries in Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia rely on.