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Death Toll Rises To 32 From Russia's Deadliest Attack On Kyiv Since War Began


Smoke rises in the sky over Kyiv after a deadly Russian missile and drone strike on Ukraine's capital on December 29.
Smoke rises in the sky over Kyiv after a deadly Russian missile and drone strike on Ukraine's capital on December 29.

The Kyiv City Military Administration said overnight on January 3-4 that criminal investigators examining the scene of the deadliest air attack on the capital so far in the 22-month-old full-scale Russian invasion discovered two more bodies, raising the death toll to 32. More than two dozen more were injured in Kyiv in the December 29 bombardment in which 158 missiles and drones targeted military and infrastructure and major population centers all over the country. More than 40 people died in total, and Russia launched another major bombardment on January 2. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service, click here.

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