00:01In the ruins of Ukraine's National Chernobyl Museum, the clean-up is starting over from scratch.
00:07The monument to history's most infamous nuclear disaster and a deep trauma for Ukraine
00:12had only just finished renovations ahead of its 40th anniversary.
00:16Now it's partly destroyed.
00:18The latest Ukrainian building blasted apart in a Russian missile attack.
00:25According to preliminary estimates, we have lost 40% of the museum exhibits that were on display.
00:31A significant portion of the items have been rescued from the exhibition.
00:35I hope that we will still find some items that may be trapped under the collapsed drywall structures.
00:41And Russia says it's just getting started.
00:44Its foreign ministry on Monday warned foreigners to leave the capital, Kiev,
00:48ahead of what it called, quote, systematic strikes against key Ukrainian targets.
00:55Russia says it's retaliation for a Ukrainian strike here on what it says was a student dormitory.
01:01Moscow says the attack, in a Russian-occupied part of Ukraine, killed 21.
01:08Three waves of drones 10 to 15 minutes apart, 16 UAVs in total.
01:18Ukraine says it's not responsible for the attack, that it struck a drone command center instead.
01:24But Russian anger hasn't abated.
01:27Ukraine's government is telling its Western allies not to flinch in the face of this new threat,
01:32hoping to shore up support as Ukraine and Russia continue to trade deadly attacks.
01:39We are currently telling our partners that there is no need to give in to this Russian blackmail.
01:44We have all been through this before.
01:46And we know when Vladimir Putin amps up this rhetoric, that is, he escalates,
01:50tries to influence this so-called Western mentality,
01:53whether it's nuclear threats or joint exercises on the territory of Belarus.
01:58This is his way, you know, once again, of mocking all peace efforts.
02:05European allies, at least, seem to be staying put.
02:08The head of the EU mission in Kiev says the bloc's presence in this city will remain.
02:13And among the diplomats laying flowers in a Kiev neighborhood battered by a recent strike
02:18was France's ambassador to Ukraine, who had this assessment.
02:22But as you can see around me, actually, people, normal people are working normally here today.
02:29It's a way to demonstrate resilience, and I think it's extremely important
02:33that we, around the world, we would support that.
02:38Russia seems serious about pushing ahead with fresh attacks.
02:42The country's defense minister recently inspected a command center of Russian forces in Ukraine.
02:47Scenes like this, and the recent firing of an Oreshnik hypersonic missile at Ukraine
02:52for just the third time in this whole war, show Russia does not appear to be slowing down.
02:58Andy Xue and John Van Trieste for Taiwan Plus.
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