Russian forces conducted an airstrike using a glide bomb (later identified as an Iskander missile) on an awards ceremony held by the 128th Mountain Assault Brigade, killing between 28 and 60 soldiers and wounding many others.
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Russian forces conducted an airstrike using a glide bomb (later identified as an Iskander missile) on an awards ceremony held by the 128th Mountain Assault Brigade, killing between 28 and 60 soldiers and wounding many others.
Russia said in a defence ministry briefing Saturday that it had inflicted a fire defeat on a Ukrainian assault unit in Zaporizhzhia and that up to 30 people had been killed.
Ukrainian defenders conducting offensive operations on Melitopol front and exhausting Russians along contact line
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Source story: day-620-2023-11-06