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Now, let's take a look at the news from Ukraine.

A former New York Times reporter working in Ukraine was killed and two of his colleagues were wounded in a Russian military shooting.

Russian forces have again kidnapped a Ukrainian mayor as they extended their attack to the west of Lviv, close to the Polish border.



Correspondent Han Se-hyeon. 



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former New York Times video reporter who was covering in Irfin on the outskirts of Kiiu, the capital of Ukraine, was killed in a Russian gunfire.



The victim, 51-year-old American Brent Renault, was shot in the neck while traveling in his vehicle.



Another American journalist and a local driver were also seriously injured in the same vehicle.



[Juan/Russian attack wounded: I saw a Renault reporter shot in the neck, and then we fell.

Someone dragged me out...

(Who brought you here to the hospital?) It's an ambulance, I don't know.]



There was also an attack on mercenaries from Ukraine.



The Russian military said it had killed 180 mercenaries in an airstrike on a military training center and training center in Lviv, western Ukraine.



Just 25 kilometers from the Polish border, the Ukrainian military said 35 people were killed and 134 wounded at the base in Yavoriu.



[Igor Konashenkov/Russian Defense Ministry Spokesperson: This airstrike killed 180 mercenaries and destroyed a large number of foreign weapons.

Russian military attacks on foreign mercenaries will continue.]



Following the mayor of Melitopolsi, the second market hijacking also took place.



Ukraine's foreign minister said yesterday (13th) at 8:30 a.m. local time that the mayor of Dnipro Rudnesi was kidnapped by Russian forces.



The Russian military is expanding its bombing range in all directions to western and southwestern Ukraine.



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