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Update: Grenade launcher mishandling wounds 15, including 8 children, in Chernihiv

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An unauthorized military exhibition of weapons took place on Sept. 3 during a children's event in Chernihiv. Four people, including two children, remain in the hospital. One child is in serious condition, according to local authorities. The State Investigations Bureau said it was establishing the circumstances of the incident, while President Volodymyr Zelensky assured that all those responsible would be punished.

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The Kyiv Independent staff documented what it feels like to live and sleep in Kyiv, Ukraine, as Russia intensifies its drone and missile attacks on the city. Filmed over several weeks in June and July, our journalists take shelter in bathrooms, basements, and parking garages as explosions ring out overhead.

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