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'Massive’ missile attack on Kyiv: Explosions rock Ukraine as Russia launches devastating airstrike

Last updated on - Apr 24, 2025, 12:00 IST
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Ukraine in the rubble

Amid the wreckage of a Russian missile strike, a man gazes out from a damaged apartment in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Image: AP)

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Safe in mother's embrace

In the aftermath of a Russian airstrike, a mother holds her son close in a school basement-turned-shelter in Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 24, 2025. (Image: AP)

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War torn Ukraine, still human

In war-torn Kyiv, a Ukrainian serviceman carries a dog from the ruins of a home hit by a Russian missile. (Image: AP)

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In war's quiet shadow

In the aftermath of a Russian airstrike, a wounded woman sits quietly with her dog near a destroyed home in Kyiv. (Image: AP)

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Hope in times of despair

Tucked inside a backpack, cats wait in a school basement repurposed as a shelter after a Russian airstrike struck a Kyiv neighborhood. (Image: AP)

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Ukraine sleeps through war

Residents take refuge in a Kyiv metro station repurposed as a bomb shelter amid a Russian missile attack in the early hours of Thursday. ( Image: AP)

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Clearing war's wreckage

Ukrainian rescue teams sift through debris in the aftermath of a Russian ballistic missile strike in Kyiv. (Image: AP)


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