Russian bombing kills more than 70 Ukrainian soldiers

A Ukrainian military commander announced that more than 70 soldiers were killed in violent Russian shelling on the town of Okhtyrka in the Sumy region in the northeast of the country.

"A military unit in Okhtyrka was subjected to fierce bombardment by the enemy...Unfortunately, it was completely destroyed," the Ukrainian news agency "Ukrinform" quoted Dmytro Zyvitsky, head of the Sumy military command.

More than 70 soldiers were killed.

There are also civilian casualties...the wreckage is being removed now, and more dead soldiers may be found.”

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