"Palace Ukraine", where The Kiev Major 2017 was held, was damaged by shelling

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As all Ukrainians expected, on New Year's Eve, Russia shelled the capital and other cities. As a result of the attack, some structures were damaged, 16 people were hospitalized (at the time of writing), one man died and another person is in critical condition.

One of the damaged facilities was the Alfavito Hotel, which is associated with several eSports events. According to the well-known Ukrainian commentator Vitaliy 'v1lat' Volochay, eminent esportsmen used to gather in this place when they came to Kyiv for tournaments:

Cybersportsmen lived here themselves, when they came to tournaments in Kiev. Itself here in the bar, I’m a hotel when I win ROTK and win over to minors. All the top KSeri of the world lived here when they came to the tournaments under Starladder.

The Palace of Ukraine, which hosted The Kiev Major 2017, was another damaged building.

According to the observations of the same v1lat, a lot of CIS DotA fans gathered in this palace in order to support the players from Virtus.pro:

And the axis is Palace Ukraine, de bouve the legendary Kiev major. Yes, the very one who guesses, like a tournament with a nameless public.

The same one, de most, bolished for the VP, and the other part for the OG. De in analytsi sat Nsi, Smiley and Dready, they talked about the warm welcome to that class audience. The axis is only dick or ganizatsi those people who work there at once to write about it.

It is also noteworthy that even a Japanese journalist who was hospitalized was injured. In this way, we can be sure that in Japan they will know about the incident exactly as they should.

At the moment, new details continue to be established and new media materials about the perfect shelling continue to appear.