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A big swath of Makariv, a village 30 miles west of Kyiv, has sustained important harm from obvious Russian airstrikes.

CNN geolocated and verified the authenticity of photographs posted to social media on Saturday, which present main harm to house complexes, faculties and a medical facility.

A stark picture from Makariv reveals a big gap within the northern wall of an house constructing. Lots of the buildings within the photographs have sustained harm on their northern facades, proof that factors to navy strikes that hit them being Russian.

A number of hundred ft east of that house constructing, a kindergarten additionally sustained important harm.

Smoke might be noticed nonetheless billowing up from the constructing, the roof has fully caved in and the home windows have all been blown out. 

The Russian Ministry of Defence has repeatedly claimed they don’t seem to be focusing on civilians.

At one other house constructing simply west of the college, one other photograph reveals the roof and a lot of higher flooring residences destroyed.

Simply south of the college, the Adonis-Makariv Medical and Diagnostic Middle is seen on hearth. The road in entrance of it’s plagued by particles and the home windows have been blown out of the middle.

A photograph taken on the road in entrance of the middle confirmed that the particles in entrance of it’s all that continues to be of the north-facing entrance facade of the constructing.

Instantly west of the college and medical heart, close to the middle of Makariv, an enormous crater was noticed within the highway. The medical heart might be seen within the background on hearth. Subsequent to that crater, one other photograph reveals a residential constructing with a grocery retailer on the bottom flooring has been hit.

Within the heart of city, a cultural heart that additionally homes authorities and police places of work has been hit by a strike. A portion of the constructing was destroyed and a construction on the roof appeared to have been clipped by some type of munition.

“Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes” was written on a big signal within the entrance of the constructing.

South of central Makariv, a preschool additionally sustained important harm. The home windows have been blown out and parts of the roof look like broken.