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A councillor on a humanitarian mission to Ukraine has told how he cheated death as Russian missiles rained down around his hotel. Jordan Meade, 28, had to flee to safety as Kyiv was pounded by explosions. Inside a reinforced hotel bomb shelter, the buildings shook from the blasts and sobbing children clung to their parents as Cllr Meade sat in dread of his own fate. He said: “It was impossible not to fear the worst.” The Gravesend Conservative raced to the refuge of the basement bunker after 10 deadly Russian hypersonic rockets, 62 X-101 missiles, dozens of drones and other weaponry were launc…

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