After a night of terror in Kyiv, the search for dead goes on

A cruise missile slammed into an ordinary residential block early on Tuesday, likely travelling at about 500mph.

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He stared up at what was left of his apartment, in a suburb of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. His windows had disappeared, his balcony was on the verge of collapse.

Below, personal belongings were strewn across the pathways. Bedsheets and towels hung from the branches of trees.

A cruise missile slammed into this ordinary residential block in the Solomianskyi neighbourhood in the early hours of Tuesday morning, likely travelling at about 500mph. The blast destroyed 35 apartments and hollowed out an entire section of the building.

By Wednesday afternoon, 23 people had been found dead in the rubble. Across Ukraine, at least 30 were known to have been killed in the attacks, all but two of them in Kyiv.