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Beside the road, a cake shop has had its front blown off, covering pastries and pies in shattered glass.

A dental clinic next door has been destroyed in the blast. Inside, staff are trying to recover what’s still intact among the wreckage.

One woman was removing baubles from a plastic Christmas tree that was still standing.

“It’s happened before,” she told the BBC, “but never as badly as this”.

Asked how she felt, she shrugged: “We got used to it. It’s the third year of war.“

“There were three explosions in a row, then a big fire glow in the sky – and the building shook. It was very loud,” a young man called Oleksandr said while exiting a nearby block of flats.

“I woke up immediately – I even felt the wall shaking. When the third strike came, it was pretty scary.”

On Saturday morning, the main road has been cordoned off – but a few hours after the strike the neighbouring streets nearby are already busy with traffic. Old ladies are selling chickens and gherkins outside the market, and there are joggers and people walking their dogs.

But a pensioner passing by told us she was terrified.

“I didn’t know where to run, because you normally go to the metro for shelter – but it was on fire.”

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