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At least one person was killed and several were injured after a Russian missile strike hit Kyiv on Sunday (June 26). News agencies reported that Moscow has stepped up its air strikes on Ukraine for a second day amid the ongoing war.
The emergency services have said that the firefighters put out a fire in a badly damaged nine-storey residential building in the central Shevchenkivskiy district.
Vitali Klitschko, who is the city’s mayor, said that the first Russian strike in the capital in nearly three weeks was aimed to “intimidate Ukrainians… at the approach of the NATO summit” to be held in Madrid from June 28-30. Klitschko visited the scene of the explosion.
As per a report by Reuters, up to four explosions rang out in central Kyiv in the early hours. Two more blasts were heard on the southern outskirts of the city later in the day.
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