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At least 32 peo­ple have been killed in a Russ­ian mis­sile strike on the Ukrain­ian city of Sumy on Sun­day, of­fi­cials said.

Two bal­lis­tic mis­siles struck the heart of the city at around 10:15 a.m. as peo­ple gath­ered to cel­e­brate Palm Sun­day, ac­cord­ing to of­fi­cials. Im­ages post­ed from the scene on of­fi­cial chan­nels showed lines of black body bags ly­ing on the side of the road, while more bod­ies were seen wrapped in foil blan­kets among the de­bris. Video footage al­so showed fire crews as they fought to ex­tin­guish the shells of burned-out cars among the rub­ble from dam­aged build­ings.

“On this bright Palm Sun­day, our com­mu­ni­ty has suf­fered a ter­ri­ble tragedy,” act­ing May­or Artem Kobzar said in a state­ment on so­cial me­dia. “Un­for­tu­nate­ly, we al­ready know of more than 20 deaths.”