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A baby just 22 days old and her 12-year-old brother and their parents were among seven people killed by Russian shells in southern Ukraine on Sunday.
The bomb hit their house in the village of Shyroka Balka in Kherson, Interior Minister Igor Klymenko said.
The dead also included another resident of the village and two men in neighboring Stanislav.
"Terrorists must be stopped. They must be stopped by force," said Mr. Klymenko. The minister shared pictures of the aftermath of the Shyroka Balka attack, showing black columns of smoke rising from buildings and the bodies of some of the dead digitally blacked out.
Thirteen others were wounded by shelling, he added.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky used his daily address to the nation to condemn the "brutal" attack in Shyroka Balka.
"Five people were killed," he said. "Among them was a girl, only 22 days old. Her brother, only 12 years old. Mother Olesia… only 39, also died.”
He added that there had been 17 reports of Russian shelling in Kherson alone, and many more further afield.
"Not a day goes by that Russian evil doesn't get our perfectly fair response," he said. "We will not leave any of Russia's crimes unanswered."
Kherson was one of four regions in Ukraine that Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed to have annexed last year. The Ukrainian army retook the western part of the region in November. Russian troops have continued to bombard the area from across the Dnipro River.
The shelling came a day after Moscow accused Kiev of "terrorism" over what it said was an attempted missile attack on the Crimean Bridge that links the peninsula to Russia.
Ukraine has not confirmed the attack, although Zelensky has previously said the bridge is used as a military supply route and is a legitimate target.
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