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Smoke billows after an apparent Russian airstrike hit Kyiv's main television tower in the heart of the Ukrainian capital, knocking out some state broadcasting but leaving the structure intact. After a blast sounded around the city and smoke was seen rising in the Babi Yar district, the interior ministry said equipment had been damaged and "channels won't work for a while". IMAGES
Russian strikes pounded a military factory near Kyiv that makes the missiles Ukraine claims it used to sink the Moskva naval flagship. Russia had earlier announced it had used Kalibr sea-based long-range missiles to hit the factory, which Ukraine's state weapons manufacturer Ukroboronprom says produced Neptune missiles. "People lived here... Three people were hurt," Andrei Sizov, a 47-year-old owner of a nearby wood workshop, tells AFP.
A Ukrainian military factory outside Kyiv that produced missiles allegedly used to hit Russia's Moskva warship was partly destroyed by overnight Russian strikes, an AFP journalist at the scene saw Friday (April 15). The flagship of Russia's Black Sea fleet has sunk after what Kyiv said was a Ukrainian missile strike, dealing one of the heaviest blows yet to Moscow's war effort. FRANCE 24's Rob Parsons tells us more.
Emergency services are on the scene after a strike on the National Academy of Sciences in Kyiv. IMAGES
Rescue crews pick through smouldering rubble as bodies lay on the ground after a deadly overnight Russian strike hit a popular shopping mall in north-western Kyiv. At least eight people were killed in the bombing.