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Governor: Russia launches missile strike on Kryvyi Rih

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Explosions were reported in Kryvyi Rih on Aug. 12 which Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Governor Serhii Lysak later confirmed were from a Russian missile strike.

No additional information has yet been provided except that there were no casualties.

Kryvyi Rih, the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelensky, is a city in central Ukraine with a pre-war population of over 600,000.

In late July, a Russian missile attack on Kryvyi Rih killed six people and injured 75 others, including children.

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