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Russia’s air strike kills nine people in Ukrainian city of Sumi

KYIV: An airstrike in the Ukrainian city of Sumi has killed at least nine people, including two children, where a humanitarian corridor will be set up on Tuesday, authorities said.
The corridor from Sumi to Poltava is designed to evacuate civilians, including Chinese, Indians and other foreigners, but Ukraine’s vice prime minister has accused Russia of planning to disrupt the route.
The bomber struck shortly after noon in front of a U.S. military base in the northern city of Sumi, near the Russian border, the Ukrainian capital, Kiev.

Arriving at the scene at 11:00 pm, they said in a telegram that “enemy planes have fraudulently attacked the apartment buildings.”
Sumi, 350 kilometers (218 miles) east of Kiev, had experienced heavy fighting for several days, but no other details about the attack were immediately available.
Ukraine’s Vice Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk said in a letter to the International Committee of the Red Cross that the Russian Defense Ministry had agreed to open the corridor early on Tuesday.
“We have information that the Russian side is planning to disrupt the corridors,” he added.
“Manipulation is being prepared to force people to take another path, which is not integrated and dangerous,” said the Vice Prime Minister.

He said the corridor was also designed for food and medicine supply channels.
The deputy prime minister said the first convoy was scheduled to begin at 10 a.m., an hour after the start of what Ukraine had hoped would be a ceasefire that would last until 9 p.m.
He called on Russia to “urgently coordinate” humanitarian corridors from Volnovakha, Mariupol, Mariupol, as well as Kiev, Kharkiv and their environs.

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