NewsWorldEurope’The meeting people are waiting for’: Zelensky hopes to engage talks with Putin<\/p>\n
Two people have been killed in Russian airstrikes on the Ukraine capital Kyiv. <\/p>\n
Ukrainian television footage showed firefighters clambering through rubble and up a ladder into what was left of the smouldering apartment block that was hit in Kyiv\u2019s Obolon district. <\/p>\n
It comes as Russia has stepped up its attacks on Kyiv, following an attack on an aircraft plant earlier on Monday. <\/p>\n
Maksim Korovii, a resident of the badly damaged building, said he had hidden in a closet after being woken by his mother with smoke and dust everywhere.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe thought that we were being captured, that the Russians were getting in through the door. But we were wrong. We got out from the apartment and saw that the staircase was not there any more, everything was on fire,\u201d he said, clutching a guitar as he tried to retrieve whatever of his belongings he could find.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe managed to put on whatever clothes we had at hand and made our way from balcony to balcony and in the end we climbed down by the next building\u2019s entrance.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said the second death on Monday was in the Kurenivka neighbourhood of the capital.<\/p>\n
Towns near Kyiv were being evacuated for the fifth successive day, regional governor Oleksiy Kuleba said as occasional explosions were heard in the distance.<\/p>\n
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