Chernihiv

Also Cher·ni·giv

[cher-ni-hiv, cher-nee-heev]

1. a city in northern Ukraine, on the Desna River.

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The Chernihiv city resident spoke in matter-of-fact terms about a night filled with the low whine of Iranian-designed Shahed drones, a sound now being increasingly heard far from the war's front lines.

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"The hero city of Chernihiv did not give up and is not going to give up. Morale is high."

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The Chernihiv region shares a border with both Russia and Belarus, giving the air defences here less time to react to any incoming attacks.

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The Ukrainian city of Chernihiv is in total blackout following what the authorities describe as a "massive" assault by Russian missiles and drones, with hundreds of thousands of people affected.

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Across the wider Chernihiv region, four people are reported to have been killed as residential neighbourhoods were struck in the town of Novhorod-Siverskyi.

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