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Russia has in recent weeks stepped up its daily attacks on Kiev with jet-powered Shahed drones that began to be used in April. These attacks target civilian infrastructure such as transportation systems, energy, food storage, and other vital societal functions.
Images of two scientists clinging to the window frames of the National Academy of Sciences building in Kiev have sparked fresh anger over Russia's escalating attacks on the Ukrainian capital.
The 1850s building was hit in the middle of the day by a jet-powered Russian drone.
Deputy head of department Ihor Malchevsky initially had difficulty accepting that his office, which is close to the National Opera and the German Embassy, had been hit:
- The first few seconds you don't understand anything. Then the brain starts working and tries to analyze what has happened, he told Reuters.
When the building started to burn, he - despite his fear of heights - climbed out of a window on the third floor. At the same time, black smoke poured out from behind him. In the next window sat a colleague who also tried to escape the flames.
Malchevsky focused on his wife, two grown children and seven grandchildren, he told Reuters.
In the end, the rescue service managed to get two ladders up to the facade. When Ihor Malchevsky carefully made his way down, the building was already completely engulfed in flames and flames were pouring out of the windows.
Malchevsky reached the ground largely unscathed and sat shaken in a park across the road, covered in soot. He was given a glass of water after inhaling smoke.
The colleague in the next window also came down unharmed, but a woman was killed in the attack and several others were injured.
The day after the attack, Ihor Malchevsky's grandson called him "Spiderman" after watching videos on YouTube. He himself says that Ukraine must continue to work to try to weaken Russia, in parallel with peace talks.
In recent weeks, Russia has carried out almost daily daytime attacks against the Ukrainian capital. The new jet-powered Shahed drones, which Russia began using in April this year, are difficult for Ukraine to defend against.
Russia is targeting everything from train traffic and other transport systems, to energy infrastructure, food storage and other civil infrastructure.
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