Russian forces fired rockets at the Shostka District in Sumy Oblast, striking and damaging the Jewish cemetery in Hlukhiv which contains historical graves of victims from the 1918 pogrom.
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Russian forces fired rockets at the Shostka District of Sumy region
A Russian rocket struck the Jewish cemetery in Hlukhiv
The Jewish cemetery contains a mass grave of victims from the pogrom of 1918
The cemetery contains the graves of tzaddiks Menachem-Nohim-David Heselov and Israel-Dov-Ber Nokhimov Shumiatskykh
Russian forces bombed a Jewish cemetery in Hlukhiv, Sumy Oblast
The graves of the chief tzaddiks survived the attack
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