Russian aircraft bombed Zhytomyr on Wednesday evening as artillery fire continued pounding the suburbs of Kyiv and Kharkiv, the country's second largest city.

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In Zhytomyr, a city of 260,000 to the west of Kyiv, bombs fell on two hospitals - one of them a children's hospital - Mayor Serhii Sukhomlyn said on Facebook.

He said the number of casualties was still being determined.

"The night ahead may be hot," he said in a video address to Zhytomyr residents. "Russia understands that it is losing strategically, but we have to hold out."

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