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Official: Russia strikes Pechenihy in Kharkiv Oblast with S-300 missiles.

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The information was provided by Pechenihy Mayor Oleksandr Husarov.

Pechenihy, a town on the east bank of the Siversky Donets River, hosts the dam on a water reservoir that supplies Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, with water.

Emergency services are on the site, President Volodymyr Zelensky's Deputy Chief of Staff Kyrylo Tymoshenko said. No casualties were reported.

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