People trapped in the building had to climb out of windows to escape the inferno started by the strike on Monday.
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Anatoly Zagorodny, the director of Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences, said he did not know why Russia had targeted the academy, a leading Ukrainian centre for research. ‘We are not connected with the military. This is an attack on science. It is terrorism,’ he said.
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