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1 killed, 2 injured following Russia's attack on Donetsk Oblast

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1 killed, 2 injured following Russia's attack on Donetsk Oblast
Russia's missile attack damaged a multi-story building in Donetsk Oblast's Selydove. (Interior Ministry/Telegram)

Russian forces launched a missile attack overnight on Nov. 15 targeting the city of Selydove in the western part of Donetsk Oblast.

First responders have rescued five people from a multi-story building damaged in the attack, including a child. Two people were injured and were transferred to the local hospital. The body of a woman was found under the rubble. Interior Ministry reported that at least one more person might still be trapped under the rubble.

Rescue operation is ongoing as of 7:30 a.m. local time.

Selydove, home to approximately 21,000 residents, is located some 20 kilometers south of Pokrovsk.

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Olena Goncharova is the Head of North America desk at The Kyiv Independent, where she has previously worked as a development manager and Canadian correspondent. She first joined the Kyiv Post, Ukraine's oldest English-language newspaper, as a staff writer in January 2012 and became the newspaper’s Canadian correspondent in June 2018. She is based in Edmonton, Alberta. Olena has a master’s degree in publishing and editing from the Institute of Journalism in Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv. Olena was a 2016 Alfred Friendly Press Partners fellow who worked for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for six months. The program is administered by the University of Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia.

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