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AdMicrosoft AdsClocks That Will Help You Stay On TimeAdLendingTree$50K Home Equity Loan in this Economy? 5.49% APR ($284/mo)The Wall Street Journal.FollowView ProfileUkraine Hit by Deadliest Single Russian Attack on Civilians in WeeksStory by Ian Lovett, Georgi Kantchev • Yesterday 5:17 PMReact|652Russian strikes killed at least 10 people in eastern Ukraine, the deadliest single Russian attack on civilians in weeks, as President Vladimir Putin said he was preparing for a long, protracted conflict in the country.Ukraine Hit by Deadliest Single Russian Attack on Civilians in Weeks© STAFF/REUTERSA barrage of artillery fire struck the town of Kurakhove on Wednesday, hitting a market, a bus station and several residential buildings, according to Pavlo Kyrylenko, Ukraine’s governor of the Donetsk region, where the town is located. He posted a video on Telegram showing a row of destroyed shops.Why Millennials Are Using Their Phones To Learn A Language In 3 Weeks?AdBabbelMost fighting has been focused on the Donetsk region since both Ukraine and Russia shifted troops and arms there following the Russian retreat from the southern city of Kherson last month.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said 10 people had been killed and many more injured.“The Russian army carried out a very brutal, absolutely deliberate strike at Kurakhove,” Mr. Zelensky said in his nightly video address. “Precisely at civilians. At ordinary people.”Russian officials haven’t commented on the strikes but have repeatedly said that they don’t target civilians.Meanwhile, Russia released women’s basketball star Brittney Griner from a penal colony on Thursday, part of a negotiated prisoner release deal that exchanged her for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, U.S. officials said.Elsewhere, the Kremlin said Thursday that Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula that Moscow has occupied since it annexed it in 2014, was vulnerable to Ukrainian attacks. Earlier Thursday, the governor of the largest city in the peninsula, Sevastopol, said the Russian military downed a drone in the sea.Video Player is loading.Loaded: 1.85%PauseCurrent Time 0:00/Duration 3:36LQCaptionsFullscreen0