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4,000 people stuck in hot spots outside Kyiv.

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According to Vadym Denysenko, advisor to the interior minister of Ukraine, 2,000 people have been evacuated from Irpin, Bucha and Hostomel settlements outside of Kyiv, which all have seen heavy fighting since the start of Russia's all-out war. "But, unfortunately, more than 4,000 people remain in the occupied territories near Kyiv," Denysenko said.

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The Kyiv Independent staff documented what it feels like to live and sleep in Kyiv, Ukraine, as Russia intensifies its drone and missile attacks on the city. Filmed over several weeks in June and July, our journalists take shelter in bathrooms, basements, and parking garages as explosions ring out overhead.

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