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Ukraine updates: Second car bomb to hit Russia in two days

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Ukraine updates: Second car bomb to hit Russia in two days

A second car bomb exploded in Moscow, targeting an exiled Ukrainian political aide, according to Russian media. Meanwhile Ukraine and Russia exchanged deadly strikes overnight. DW has more. In the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa, authorities said two people had been killed and five others injured.

One person was reportedly injured in an attack on a hospital, according to reports from the capital city of Kyiv. A Russian attack on Zaporizhzhia in the southeast killed a 17-year-old boy, acting regional governor Mykhailo Semikin said. Russia's Investigative Committee has launched an investigation into the explosion of a car belonging to an exiled Ukrainian political aide in Moscow, Russian media reported. The car reportedly belonged to Sergei Zavorotniy, a former spokesman for Mykola Azarov, who served as Ukraine's prime minister from 2010 to 2014.

He fled to Russia from Ukraine amid anti-government protests in 2014. According to the Russian newspaper Kommersant , Zavorotniy was hospitalized.