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Russia denies targeting Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, and instead accuses "missiles from foreign and Ukrainian air defence systems located in residential areas of the Ukrainian capital" of causing the damage. Critical energy infrastructure was hit in the capital yesterday and at least three people were killed. SOUNDBITE
Half of Western military aid to Kyiv is delivered late, says Ukrainian Defence Minister Rustem Umerov, as the country struggles with an ammunition shortage. SOUNDBITE
An Israeli air strike hits Gaza overnight after militants fired rockets from the Palestinian enclave towards Israel. The flare-up in violence comes hours after the death in Israeli custody of a Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike. IMAGES
Damaged buildings are seen at the site of overnight strikes in the western part of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. Russian forces pressed their offensive in south and east Ukraine after bombarding its capital during a visit by the United Nations' chief. IMAGES
In images released by the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, firefighters are seen putting out a fire at a fuel storage facility in the southern city of Belgorod, after "an air strike carried out by two Ukrainian army helicopters", according to the local governor Vyacheslav Gladkov. Belgorod lies some 40 kilometres (25 miles) from Russia's border with Ukraine and some 80 kilometres from the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, which has been pummelled by Russian forces since Moscow launched its war on February 24. IMAGES
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