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Smoke rises above Mariupol on April 18.

Firefighters work in Lviv after a civilian building was hit by a Russian missile on April 18.

On April 17, 2022, Russia’s missile hit a building with office and business premises, causing a large fire. The relevant statement was made by the Ukrainian State Emergency Service.

Mariupol, Ukraine, a southern port city on the Sea of Azov, has been the site of some of the heaviest shelling in the war.

Women clean inside a damaged building at the Vizar company military-industrial complex in Vyshneve, Ukraine, on April 15. The site, on the outskirts of Kyiv, was hit by Russian strikes. (Vyshneve is a city 2 km south of Kyiv in Ukraine. It is in the Bucha Raion of Kyiv Oblast.)

AFP's Alexander Nemenov photographs the devastation in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol during an official tour organised by Russia's military. Russian troops are intensifying their battle to seize the strategic port city which they began bombarding in early March.

School official Iryna Homenko walks in the hall of a school damaged by an airstrike from Russian forces in Chernihiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, April 13, 2022. In Chernihiv alone, the city council said only seven of the city’s 35 schools were unscathed. Three were reduced to rubble.

The tail of a missile sticks out in a residential area in Yahidne, near Dnipro on April 12.

According to Ukrinform, the Mariupol City Council reported this on Telegram. "The houses of 84,000 Mariupol residents have been completely destroyed. This is 40% of multi-storey buildings or about 2 million square meters” the report says.

Firefighters work at a burning building in Kharkiv following a missile attack near the Kharkiv International Airport on April 12.