Seven civilians killed while trying to evacuate Kyiv region, Ukrainian Defense Ministry says

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

CNN geolocated and verified the authenticity of pictures posted to social media on Saturday, which present main injury to residence complexes, colleges and a medical facility.

A stark picture from Makariv exhibits a big gap within the northern wall of an residence constructing. Most of the buildings within the pictures have sustained injury on their northern facades, proof that factors to army strikes that hit them being Russian.

A number of hundred toes east of that residence constructing, a kindergarten additionally sustained vital injury.

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

The Russian Ministry of Defence has repeatedly claimed they aren’t focusing on civilians.

At one other residence constructing simply west of the varsity, one other picture exhibits the roof and quite a few higher flooring residences destroyed.

Simply south of the varsity, the Adonis-Makariv Medical and Diagnostic Middle is seen on fireplace. 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 is still of the north-facing entrance facade of the constructing.

Instantly west of the varsity 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 fireplace. Subsequent to that crater, one other picture exhibits 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 workplaces 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 kind 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 vital injury. The home windows have been blown out and parts of the roof seem like broken.