Hello. i m gareth barlow. we start in ukraine, where officials say a six year old child is among seven people killed in a russian missile strike on the city of chernihiv. more than a 100 are injured. they say a theatre on the main square was targeted. video from the scene shows glass and debris blown across nearby streets, as well as a number of bodies. president zelensky, writing on the telegram messaging app, said russia had turned an ordinary saturday into a day of pain and loss . chernihiv is close to the border with belarus. videos of the moment the strikes took place in chernihiv have been appearing on social media. this is an image from one video which shows a woman in a white dress posing for a photo as a missile hits a building directly behind her.
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Windows have. the drone exhibition was held here today. there is a suggestion of possible motive but there is an overarching reason, too, which is the continued invasion of ukraine. that is why russian missiles continue to land in cities across the country, not necessarily in locations close to the front line but in areas like chernihiv which it was never able to occupy, this is a city that came under sustained attack earlier in the full scale invasion, had enjoyed a relative reprieve in terms of air strikes but this is a reality now for so many ukrainians or sirens go off most days and everyone smile you have a scene of devastation like this.
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For hundreds of yards down the surrounding streets. it s often the force of the blast which takes your breath away as well. it is clear that this is an attack that happened during the height of a busy saturday, where people were enjoying the especially warm august weather. we are told the number of casualties was worsened by the fact that a bus had just dropped off its passengers at the moment of impact. time and time again you will hear the kremlin provide a military justification for strikes like this. and while there might have been a military theme to the drone meeting, no doubt about that, we are still talking about a civilian area, packed with civilians, being targeted in the most deliberate way. james, tell us about the geographical significance of chernihiv. we often talk about places that are attacked in ukraine, but for many of our viewers they don t know the difference between many of them.