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- Russian forces struck Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences in Kyiv, partially collapsing its headquarters and igniting fire.
- The Monday attack killed at least two people and injured several others.
- The academy warned that science is now a target of armed attacks.
- Ukrainian and international academics condemned the Tuesday strike as an assault on science.
- Mark Omelchenko, a 26-year-old Kyiv resident, called the strike a symbolic act by Russians.
