A large Russian drone and missile barrage on Ukraine’s western city of Ternopil killed at least 25 people, including three children, authorities said on November 19.

The nighttime attack hit two nine-story apartment blocks in Ternopil, located around 120 miles from the Polish border, according to Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko. At least 73 people, including 15 children, were injured, emergency services said.

Milwaukee Independent previously reported from Ternopil in May 2022 while traveling through western Ukraine on the way to Milwaukee’s sister city of Irpin, documenting how the region had become a key transit corridor for civilians and aid workers escaping the brutality of Putin’s unprovoked full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022.

At the time, local officials stressed that Tern

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