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For Putin, This War Is Personal

June 14, 2023 17:48 IST

More than a dozen people were killed as Russian missiles targeted residential buildings in Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's home town on Tuesday, June 13, 2023.

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Rescuers carry the body of a person killed by a Russian missile strike in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk region. Photograph: Andrii Dubchak/Reuters

 

The bodies of four people who died in the Russian strike on a residential building in Kryvyi Rih. Photograph: Alina Smutko/Reuters

 

Rescuers work at the site of the residential building destroyed by a Russian missile strike in Kryvyi Rih. Photograph: Alina Smutko/Reuters

 

Rescuers work at the site of the damaged residential building in Kryvyi Rih. Photograph: Alina Smutko/Reuters

 

Residents are shocked by the destruction to the building where they lived, here and below. Photograph: Alina Smutko/Reuters

 

Photograph: Alina Smutko/Reuters

 

Photograph: Alina Smutko/Reuters

 

Photograph: Alina Smutko/Reuters

 

Employees remove broken windows from a school damaged by a missile strike in Kryvyi Rih. Photograph: Alina Smutko/Reuters

 

Volunteers unload material to cover the broken windows in the school damaged by the Russian missile strike in Kryvyi Rih. Photograph: Alina Smutko/Reuters

 

People remove parts of the shattered windows. Photograph: Alina Smutko/Reuters

 

Neskuchne, a newly liberated village, near the front line in Donetsk region. Photograph: Oleksandr Ratushniak/Reuters

 

A Ukrainian national flag is seen in newly liberated Neskuchne. Photograph: Oleksandr Ratushniak/Reuters

 

A Ukrainian soldier walks near the body of a Russian soldier in Neskuchne. Photograph: Oleksandr Ratushniak/Reuters

 

A firefighter works at the site of a food warehouse heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike in Odesa. Photograph: Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Odesa region/Handout via Reuters

 

A woman, who was injured by a Russian missile strike, hides in a shelter in the basement of a damaged school during an air alert. Photograph: Alina Smutko/Reuters

 

A firefighter is seen at the site of an office building damaged by a Russian missile strike. Photograph: Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Odesa region/Handout via Reuters

 

A shopping mall and apartment buildings damaged by a Russian missile strike, in Odesa. Photograph: Press Service of the the Operational Command South of the Ukrainian Armed Forces/Handout via Reuters

 

 

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