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View over Kyiv as air raid siren wails as Russia steps up air strikes on military facilities in the capital, a day after warning it will renew its assault on the city in response to what it says are Ukrainian attacks on Russian soil. A military hardware factory in Kyiv was hit by strikes early Saturday, an AFP journalist says, while on Friday Russian forces bombed a missile unit outside the city. IMAGES
Air raid sirens ring out in Ukraine's capital Kyiv on day seven of Russia's invasion. Russia has stepped up its bombing campaign and missile strikes, hitting Kyiv's main television tower, two residential buildings in a town west of the city and the city of Bila Tserkva to the south of the capital. IMAGES
In Kyiv's Maidan Square, air raid sirens ring out as Russia resumes its bombardment of the Ukrainian capital, with Russian forces warning they would target security buildings. IMAGES
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says that his military has deployed Western-supplied F-16 fighter jets to counter Russia's recent large-scale drone and missile attacks. "We destroyed already some missiles and drones using the F-16," Zelensky says at a press conference in Kyiv, declining to give more details. SOUNDBITE
A hospital in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv is evacuating its patients and staff over fears of Russian strikes following claims by Belarus's secret services that it, along with another medical facility, hosted military personnel. "The city is urgently beginning to evacuate two hospitals... because a video is widely circulated online, actually de facto announcing an enemy attack on these medical facilities," Kyiv's city administration said. IMAGES
A senior UN official condemns Russia for its "appalling assaults" on Ukraine which saw some 158 missiles launched, killing at least 30 people according to Kyiv. "Regrettably, today's appalling assaults were only the latest in a series of escalating attacks by the Russian Federation," says UN assistant secretary-general Mohamed Khiari. SOUNDBITE