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At least two people were killed and 54 wounded after a missile attack on Kyiv early Thursday, the city mayor said.<\/p>\n
Ukrainian authorities issued an alert for a missile attack, and AFP journalists heard explosions across the capital.<\/p>\n
“Kyiv is being attacked by enemy missiles,” the city’s military authorities said on Telegram.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hours later, city mayor Vitali Klitschko said: “two people were killed in the capital”.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“54 people were injured. 38 of them, including 6 children, were hospitalised,” he said in a Telegram post.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a bomb shelter set up in a basement of a residential building, over a dozen residents gathered after the air alert started, an AFP journalist witnessed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Kyiv was last hit by missiles in early April when at least three people were wounded.<\/p>\n
It has been the target of sporadic attacks since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In Ukraine’s east, the city of Kharkiv was hit by seven missiles, city mayor Igor Terekhov said, adding later that “a massive drone attack” on the city was ongoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Stay safe!” said Terekhov.<\/p>\n
Andriy Yermak, a top aide to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, said Russia was attacking Kyiv, Kharkiv and other cities “with missiles and drones right now”.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Putin shows only a desire to kill,” he said. “The attacks on civilians must stop.”<\/p>\n
(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n
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