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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Anthony France

British-Ukrainian student Valentina Butenko in Kiev ‘woke to sound of explosions’

A London student told of her terror as she was woken by the sounds of explosions and gunfire over Ukraine’s capital early on Thursday, adding: “I was in a panic.”

British-Ukrainian Valentina Butenko, 19, said roads out of Kiev were blocked as desperate families try to flee with children.

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