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Russia says woman killed after cross-border Ukrainian shelling

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A Russian official said Monday that Ukrainian shelling had killed a woman in the southern Russian region of Belgorod which neighbours Ukraine, in a rare cross-border attack.

“The Armed Forces of Ukraine fired at the village of Golovchino in the Graivoronsky district. After shells hit the centre of the village, there is destruction. A 48-year-old woman died,” the Belgorod regional governor Viatcheslav Gladkov said in a post on social media.

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