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an attempt to intimidate by russia ahead of international summits. vitali klitschko arrived at the scene of a strike a short time ago, and says people are still trapped in buildings. translation: the building has been destroyed and we understand that people under rubble. they are alive and rescues are doing their best to get them out. live now to kyiv. our correspondent joe inwood is there. we understand these missiles landed around five o clock this morning at around five o clock this morning at a nine story residential building overin a nine story residential building over in the west of the city in that direction. and we have seen the pictures and the top of the building is completely destroyed. there are firefighters no dampening down the fires and using cranes to get on top of the building because there are