The bombardment was nowhere near the war's sprawling front lines or active combat zones in eastern Ukraine, where a grinding war of attrition has taken hold. Ukraine's air force managed to intercept 11 cruise missiles and two drones launched at the city.Įxplosions were also reported after midnight in Kremenchuk and Poltava in central Ukraine as well as in Mykolaiv in the south. Kyiv was also rocked by explosions in the first attack on the capital in nearly two months, with air raid sirens beginning at 4am.

Hours after the strike, firefighters were still clambering their way through the debris in the hope of finding survivors trapped under the rubble. In a haunting scene, survivors, stricken with grief, broke down in tears and grasped at each other for some form of comfort as they watched their neighbours being carried away from the rubble in body bags. At least two cruise missiles smashed into a nine-storey building, killing at least 17 people including two 10-year-old children and wounding 17 others.

In the central town of Uman, families were woken by the sound of explosions tearing through their homes. Olga's cousin Tetyana Bilash, 21, said: 'I want all Russians to rot and die, I want for this country to never exist. Inside, the remaining walls are blackened from the blast and rubble covers the toddler's highchair. Harrowing photographs show their destroyed home, where an entire wall is reduced to rubble. The missiles began raining down on the central city of Dnipro at 4am this morning, with one striking a house where Olga Bilash, 31, and her two-year-old daughter were sleeping, killing them both. The ministry later insisted that its strategic bombers had conducted 'high-precision' attacks on Ukrainian army reserve units overnight to prevent them from getting to the frontline.īut the screams of those who watched their relatives and neighbours blown to pieces and the distraught firefighters picking their way through the rubble show the reality of Putin's missile blitz. More than 20 cruise missiles and two drones were fired at cities and towns across Ukraine that were miles away from the front lines, killing at least 23 civilians including a mother and her two-year-old daughter as they slept inside their homes.įamilies were blown to pieces, with many victims buried amongst the rubble of their homes, as Russia's missiles thundered through the air and smashed into residential buildings.įive hours after the first rocket struck the town of Uman and wreaked havoc there, Russia's Defence Ministry posted a sinister message that read 'right on target' alongside a photograph of a rocket being launched. Russia today boasted its missile strikes were 'right on target' in a sickening Telegram post made just hours after Vladimir Putin unleashed a barrage of rockets on Ukrainian homes.

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