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One strike that morning hit the Islamic Cultural Center of the Muslim Association of Ukraine (AMU), a large mosque in the Nivky district in eastern Kyiv and one of the centers for Crimean Tatar religious life in Ukraine. According to the mosque’s Mufti, Ayder Rustemov, the building was empty at the time. As the community has shrunk during the war, the number of those who come for weekday prayers is already far smaller than before February 2022. Additionally, the building was closed due to the air raid alert being active, so the daybreak Fajr prayer would have had to be done at home that day. H…

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