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Russia fires at Sumy Oblast 143 times in one day, 1 person injured

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Russian forces struck several communities in Sumy Oblast on Oct. 22 with various weapons, damaging a school, a kindergarten, Khodyne vilage council, a water tower, a monument, two residential buildings and a power line in the Shalyhyne community, Sumy Oblast Governor Dmytro Zhyvytskyi reported.

According to Zhyvytskyi, a 68-year-old woman received shrapnel wounds as a result of Russia's shelling of the Seredyna-Buda community. Two houses and a power line were also damaged in the Seredyna-Buda community.

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