Russian airstrikes in town near Kyiv leave dozens missing and feared dead.

As many as 200 people are missing and presumed dead under the rubble of this small town that has been devastated by Russian airstrikes, the acting mayor said Tuesday.

Borodyanka is a one-street town, just northwest of Kyiv, the capital. A quiet, modest place, as one resident described it.

But it lies on a key access road leading to the capital, and it was among the first communities to be hit by Russia’s aerial bombardment in Ukraine’s six-week-old war, Ukrainian officials said.

The town was visited by New York Times journalists on Tuesday, after Russian forces withdrew. The scars left behind are shocking. Great gashes have been sliced through multistory complexes along the main street. Four apartment buildings collapsed in the airstrikes, the layers of apartments crushed like a concertina to ground level. Read more

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