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Russian missile attack in Zhytomyr Oblast kills 1, injures 3

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Russian missile attack in Zhytomyr Oblast kills 1, injures 3
The aftermath of a Russian missile attack in Zhytomyr Oblast overnight on June 

An overnight Russian missile attack in Zhytomyr Oblast killed one person and injured three others, Governor Vitalii Bunechko reported on June 9.

According to Bunechko, air defense was able to shoot down one missile over Zhytomyr Oblast.  

However, the falling debris destroyed one residential building and damaged 12 others, Bunechko wrote, killing one person and injuring three others.

Ukraine's Air Force also reported on June 9 that air defense had successfully intercepted and shot down four missiles, along with 10 drones launched by Russia during their latest attack on multiple targets across Ukraine.

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Kate Tsurkan is a reporter at the Kyiv Independent who writes mostly about culture-related topics in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia. Her newsletter Explaining Ukraine with Kate Tsurkan, which focuses specifically on Ukrainian culture, is published weekly by the Kyiv Independent. The U.S. publisher Deep Vellum published her co-translation of Ukrainian author Oleh Sentsov’s Diary of a Hunger Striker in 2024. Some of her other writing and translations have appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Harpers, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She is the co-founder of Apofenie Magazine.

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