Seven dead in Kyiv after another night of aerial bombardment on Ukraine
KYIV — The whine of drones and hiss of incoming missiles jarred the Ukrainian capital awake in an overnight Russian attack Monday that lasted hours and killed at least seven people and injured 31, officials said.
As morning dawned, a five-story apartment building near a leafy park in northwest Kyiv smoldered in ruin. Firefighters in yellow helmets doused the flames, trying to bring the inferno under control, as neighbors in thick coats watched. Across the street, the windows of a nearby building had been blown out.
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