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Ukraine war briefing: Russian soldier in Crimea shoots comrades and civilians

Soldier arrested after shooting; Kyiv comes under ballistic missile attack; more Wildberries hit. What we know on day 1,624 A Russian soldier ⁠in Crimea ⁠ opened fire ​on comrades, killing one and wounding ⁠another, before shooting civilians and killing ⁠three . Three other ‌people were ‌wounded, said Mikhail Razvozhayev, the Russian-installed ‌governor of the Sevastopol region. He said the attacker had been arrested. “A tragedy in Sevastopol … According to initial information, a soldier opened fire on his fellow servicemen, killing one person, before attacking civilians and killing three of them,” Razvozhayev posted. “All circumstances and causes of the ​incident are being established.” Crimea, a peninsula illegally annexed by Russia from Ukraine in 2014, has for weeks been the target of Ukrainian attacks aimed at disrupting Russian military logistics and cutting off the occupiers’ gaso

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Soldier arrested after shooting; Kyiv comes under ballistic missile attack; more Wildberries hit. What we know on day 1,624 A Russian soldier ⁠in Crimea ⁠ opened fire ​on comrades, killing one and wounding ⁠another, before shooting civilians and killing ⁠three . Three other ‌people were ‌wounded, said Mikhail Razvozhayev, the Russian-installed ‌governor of the Sevastopol region. He said the attacker had been arrested. “A tragedy in Sevastopol … According to initial information, a soldier opened fire on his fellow servicemen, killing one person, before attacking civilians and killing three of them,” Razvozhayev posted. “All circumstances and causes of the ​incident are being established.” Crimea, a peninsula illegally annexed by Russia from Ukraine in 2014, has for weeks been the target of Ukrainian attacks aimed at disrupting Russian military logistics and cutting off the occupiers’ gaso

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According to The Guardian’s linked report, Ukraine war briefing: Russian soldier in Crimea shoots comrades and civilians, Soldier arrested after shooting; Kyiv comes under ballistic missile attack; more Wildberries hit. What we know on day 1,624 A Russian soldier ⁠in Crimea ⁠ opened fire ​on comrades, killing one and wounding ⁠another, before shooting civilians and killing ⁠three . Three other ‌people were ‌wounded, said Mikhail Razvozhayev, the Russian-installed ‌governor of the Sevastopol region. He said the attacker had been arrested. “A tragedy in Sevastopol … According to initial information, a soldier opened fire on his fellow servicemen, killing one person, before attacking civilians and killing three of them,” Razvozhayev posted. “All circumstances and causes of the ​incident are being established.” Crimea, a peninsula illegally annexed by Russia from Ukraine in 2014, has for weeks been the target of Ukrainian attacks aimed at disrupting Russian military logistics and cutting off the occupiers’ gaso

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