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By Victoria Butenko, Lex Harvey, Kosta Gak, Anna Chernova, Ivana Kottasová

Kyiv (CNN) - Iryna Moskaeva and her children jumped out of their beds and started running after an explosion rocked their Kyiv apartment early on Thursday, one of many residential buildings hit during a massive Russian attack that killed at least 21 people across the Ukrainian capital.

But there was nowhere to go.  All the windows in the room were shattered, and the door was jammed - I couldn't open it,  the 61-year old told CNN.

Moskaeva, who was eventually rescued by firefighters, said this was the second time that a Russian attack damaged her home.  The first time there was an attack like this, I started crying - I was shaking so badly,  she related. Now unable to enter her apartment and going to stay with relatives, she said she was worried about getting to work on Monday.  How am I supposed to get there? There's no power, no clothes to change into, there's nothing. 

Ukraine's air force said Russia launched nearly 500 drones and more than 70 missiles toward the country in a  massive combined strike,  simultaneously targeting the capital from different directions. While most of the missiles and drones were intercepted, a total of 33 projectiles made impact.

Ukrainian authorities said 110 emergency response teams were deployed to 59 locations across the city to address the aftermath of the attack.

Moscow's military called the assault a retaliation for Ukrainian attacks on its own civilian infrastructure.

As Thursday afternoon Ukraine time, 21 people were confirmed dead and at least 85 were injured, including two children, according to Ukrainian emergency services and Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv city military administration. Search and rescue operations continued, with more people feared to be buried under the rubble.

The strikes damaged more than 20 sites across the city,  most of them ordinary residential buildings,  as well as an ambulance station, a research institute, a hotel and other businesses, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

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