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Russian strike kills a woman and injures seven in Kyiv

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A Russian strike killed a 44-year-old woman and injured seven people in a residential building in Kyiv, where a fire ravaged several floors. The attack was part of a wave of strikes that killed 10 people in Ukraine on 12 November, according to Africa News.

The wave of strikes carried out in Ukraine on 12 November killed 10 people in total, including a 44-year-old woman in the Solomyanskyi district of Kyiv, according to Africanews. Seven other people were injured in the attack, which hit a nine-storey residential building.

The fire ravaged part of the building and black smoke poured from broken windows, as rescuers evacuated residents and firefighters tried to bring the flames under control, Africanews reports. A resident trapped on the sixth floor called the emergency services to ask them to put out the fire spreading in her flat.

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