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More explosions have been heard in Kyiv on Tuesday morning as Russian bombardment continues.
An apartment bulding was reportedly hit and set on fire, according to the state emergency service. The fire was put out and one person has been hospitalised.
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A nine-storey residential apartment building in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv is reportedly on fire from Russian shelling this morning.
The Kyiv Independent newspaper reports a nine-storey apartment block in the city is currently on fire with firefighters working to put out the blaze.
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Tulip Siddiq, the Labour MP who has Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe as a constituent, has paid tribute to Liz Truss, the foreign secretary, for the role she played in getting Nazanin released. This is from the Times’ Steven Swinford.
Penny Madden, the lawyer who represents Richard Ratcliffe, Nazanin’s husband, told Sky News a few moments ago that “hopes remain very high” this morning. But she said Richard was not able to relax until Nazanin was on the flight home. She said she had spoken to Richard this morning. He was “excited”, but “tinged with anxiety”.
‘First you cry, then get used to it’: Ukraine villagers find a kind of refuge in Mykolaiv
Ukraine is holding out in the heavily bombarded port city and even as thousands of people try to leave, others are arriving
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After an airstrike flattened the school behind his house and artillery shells ripped apart a circle of neighbouring homes, Dmitry Yakhshyboyev went out to look for petrol.
His family, from seven-month-old son to parents in their 70s, had been cowering in their basement without heating, electricity or running water for two days, as Russian forces assaulted their village.