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Four people have been killed in a Russian air strike on Kyiv overnight, Ukrainian officials have said. <\/p>\n

A previous air raid had only just ended when another was activated at 06:00 (04:00 GMT), with authorities warning of a ballistic missile threat and urging residents to head for shelter. <\/p>\n

Windows were shattered in the central Shevchenkivskyi district, including at a metro station, and a fire broke out in a non-residential building, the city’s Mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said. It is not clear what was targeted.<\/p>\n

At the scene, there is a large crater in the road outside a business centre, a tall glass tower which is itself is very badly damaged, by a second missile or very large fragment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The building was empty and had been new before 2022, with no-one having moved in.<\/p>\n

Everything around it – including the local McDonald’s – has been similarly damaged.<\/p>\n

A nearby dental clinic has been all but destroyed in the blast. Inside, staff are picking through the shattered glass and the mess, recovering what they can. <\/p>\n

One woman was removing baubles from a plastic Christmas tree that was still standing.<\/p>\n

“It’s happened before,” she told me, “but never as badly as this”.<\/p>\n

Asked how she felt, she shrugged: “We got used to it.”<\/p>\n

A young man, coming out of a nearby block of flats described the blasts early this morning.<\/p>\n

“There were three explosions in a row, then a big fire glow in the sky – and the building shook. It was very loud,” Oleksandr said.<\/p>\n

“I woke up immediately – I even felt the wall shaking. When the third strike came, it was pretty scary.”<\/p>\n

On Saturday morning, emergency teams and police were everywhere and the main road had been cordoned off. <\/p>\n

A man in military fatigues was collecting grey, twisted fragments of metal that appeared to be pieces of the missile.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Videos posted online showed a car in flames and water rushing down a flooded street in the immediate aftermath.<\/p>\n

Air defences were in operation around the Ukrainian capital, Klitschko said.<\/p>\n

It is the second fatal attack on Kyiv this month, <\/b>following a strike on the city on New Year’s Day that left two people dead.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia, the local authorities say six people were wounded in a Russian strike on Saturday. One woman is said to be in a serious condition.<\/p>\n

These strikes are the latest in the war that began following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.<\/p>\n

They follow several Ukrainian attacks on Russian territory earlier in the week.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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