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Five killed in Ukrainian strike on Kursk shopping centre. Russia reports new gains in the region.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Five people were killed in a Ukrainian strike on Monday on a shopping centre in a village of Russia's Kursk region, local governor Alexander Khinshtein said on Tuesday.
Khinshtein had previously said three people were killed and nine wounded in the village of Belaya.
On Tuesday Russia said that its troops had made major new gains in its western region of Kursk, accelerating their push to drive out Ukrainian forces who have been clinging on to a slice of Russian territory since last August.
(Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Mark Trevelyan; Writing by Maxim Rodionov; Editing by Mark Porter)
The article discusses a Ukrainian strike on a shopping centre in Russia's Kursk region, resulting in five deaths.
Initial reports mentioned three deaths and nine injuries in the village of Belaya.
Russia claims to have made new territorial gains in the Kursk region following the incident.
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