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Four killed as Russians hit mental facility in Kharkiv Region

Two more patients were wounded.

Four killed as Russians hit mental facility in Kharkiv Region
Photo: Facebook/Oleh Synehubov

Medics in the border village of Strileche, Kharkiv district, tried to evacuate patients of a psychiatric hospital under shelling. Four employees got killed, the head of the Kharkiv regional military administration, Oleh Synehubov, has said on Telegram.

"In the village of Strileche, medics tried to evacuate patients of a psychiatric hospital. Even under shelling, medical workers, risking their lives, tried to save the patients. They managed to evacuate 30 patients, while the hospital had more than 600 patients in all. During the evacuation, the Russians began massive shelling," he said.

Four medical workers are known to have been killed and two more patients injured.

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