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Home city of Ukraine's Eurovision Song Contest act attacked during performance
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/home-city-ukraines-eurovision-song-contest-act-attacked-performance-rcna84329Home city of Ukraine's Eurovision Song Contest act attacked during performance
May 14, 2023, 7:40 AM PDT
By Leila Sackur
Russian missiles rained down on the home city of Ukrainian electro-pop duo Tvorchi as they performed at Eurovision Song Contest, officials in Kyiv said late Saturday.
After the pair took to the stage in the city of Liverpool in northern England, Ternopil, a small city in western Ukraine, was hit, Andriy Yermak, President Voldymyr Zelenskyy's chief of staff, said in a Telegram post.
It happened just when the Ukrainian band Tvorchi from Ternopil was performing in the Eurovision final,” he said, adding that two people had been injured.
Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said two people had been injured in the “missile attack,” in a separate post on its Telegram channel. It said that preliminary information suggested the pair had suffered “shrapnel injuries and burns.”
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