(18 Jun 2025)
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Kyiv – 18 June 2025
1. Wide of residential building destroyed by Russian missile attack
2. Wide of rescue workers carrying body of a person killed in attack
3. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Valentyn Hrynkov, resident of the destroyed building:
"A bright flash and it was so scary. Everything shook. My wife and I jumped up. My wife’s whole back was cut up by shrapnel, everything was in shrapnel. My legs were cut up pretty badly. A fire started, cars started burning, a garbage can was burning. All this smoke was coming towards us. There were no windows, not a single window, all the doors were broken, everything was broken, only the walls remained. The refrigerator fell. My wife was crying, she was bleeding. We had no flashlights, no light, no water either, I started to open the doors, but all the doors were jammed, all these doors were jammed."
4. Wide of psychologist of state emergency service Karyna Dovhal helping woman who just found out that her loved one was found under rubble
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5. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Karyna Dovhal, psychologist of state emergency service:
"The people who were here yesterday and are still here, not all of their loved ones have been pulled out from under the rubble. People were waiting for their sons, brothers, uncles."
6. Various of people watching on the building
STORYLINE:
Emergency workers pulled more bodies Wednesday from the rubble of a nine-storey Kyiv apartment building demolished by a Russian missile, raising the death toll from the latest attack on the Ukrainian capital to 28.
The building in Kyiv’s Solomianskyi district took a direct hit and collapsed during the deadliest Russian attack on Kyiv this year.
Authorities said that 23 of those killed were inside the building. The remaining five died elsewhere in the city.
Workers used cranes, excavators and their hands to clear more debris from the site, while sniffer dogs searched for buried residents.
The blast blew out windows and doors in neighboring buildings in a wide radius of damage.
The attack overnight on Monday into Tuesday was part of a sweeping barrage as Russia once again sought to overwhelm Ukrainian air defenses.
Russia fired more than 440 drones and 32 missiles in what Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said was one of the biggest bombardments of the war, now in its fourth year.
Russia has launched a summer offensive on parts of the roughly 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) front line and has intensified long-range attacks that have struck urban residential areas.
At the same time, U.S.-led peace efforts have failed to grain traction.
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