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Update: Death toll in Russia’s Aug. 17 attack on Kharkiv rises to 12

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The State Emergency Service reported that 12 civilians were killed and 20 more got injured in the Russian missile attack on a residential building in Kharkiv's Saltivskyi neighborhood on Aug. 17. Four people were rescued from under the rubble, the State Emergency Service said. The rescue operation continues.

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