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A Russian missile hit a high-rise apartment building in Kyiv.

The mayor of the city Vitali Klitschko said that according to initial data, 35 people, including 2 children, were injured.

Some of the apartments in the building are completely destroyed.

Russia began evacuating its embassy in Kyiv, and Ukraine urged its citizens to leave Russia on Wednesday as the region braced for further confrontation after President Vladimir Putin received authorization to use military force outside his country and the West responded with sanctions.

The fire in the forest area around the Chernobyl NPP is extinguished, but it will continue to smolder for several days, TASS reported, quoting the head of the Ukrainian State Emergency Management Agency.

Employees at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site have faced many fears and hardships during isolation works initiated by the European Union in 1995, two employees of the sole Turkish company taking part in the project have said.

At least 2 people are injured after a blast in Kiev, RIA Novosti reported.

The explosion took place in the very center of the Ukrainian capital. Police teams and ambulances were sent to the site.

HBO says production will begin next year on a miniseries about the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, according to TimesColonist.

The five-part series will star Jared Harris as a Soviet scientist tapped by the Kremlin to investigate the accident.

A blast occurred late on Thursday in a Kiev store of Roshen, a confectionery chain owned by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, police say.

No-one was injured after a bomb went off in the store at about 23:00 local time.