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Explosions over the Elephant at the Kyiv Zoo

Explosions over the Elephant at the Kyiv Zoo

Kyiv endures one of the most brutal waves of missile and drone attacks since the full-scale invasion broke out; and we meet Ross, my Ukrainian reporting partner.

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On Tuesday morning at around 3 a.m., a series of loud, concussive blasts woke Georgy up in the middle of the night. 

One of the explosions he heard, from his home on the left bank of the Dnipro River, was an air defense missile blowing an incoming Russian projectile out of the sky. 

The shrapnel scattered across the capital city, with a piece slicing thro…

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