Residents in Kyiv's northern Podil district came home to destroyed flats after a 5am blast on Tuesday morning hit Ukraine's capital.
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Daria Kloichko's flat was strewn with glass and most of her family's personal items were destroyed. A refugee from the 2014 war in eastern Ukraine against Russian proxy forces, she and her husband hugged and cried seeing the damage.

She and other residents told the Guardian that they had heard an uptick in shelling between the two sides over the past two days as Kyiv has announced a 48 hour curfew after attacks on residential areas in the north west and east of the city

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