Ukrainian woman, 5, and her father killed in Putin evening of terror as Russian bombards Kyiv with drone assaults whereas peace deal begins to look additional away then ever
Vladimir Putin inflicted a night of drone terror on Ukrainian capital Kyiv killing a girl aged five and her father.
At least three were killed and ten wounded amid multiple thunderous explosions in residential districts.
A desperate victim was seen on video screaming for help in an incinerated flat after a Russian strike on a block of flats.
‘There’s a man burning alive in an apartment. It’s a nightmare,’ said an onlooker.
One victim of the Putin hell was only 11 months old.
A major fireball explosion was seen in the yard of one residential high-rise.
The sickening attacks hitting civilians involving swarms of drones came as negotiators from both sides are due to meet on Monday in Saudi Arabia for US-brokered talks to discuss a ceasefire.
The brutal strikes appeared to be aimed at weakening resolve in the Ukrainian capital ahead of the Riyadh negotiations.
Vladimir Putin inflicted a night of drone terror on Ukrainian capital Kyiv killing a girl aged five and her father
At least three were killed and ten wounded amid multiple thunderous explosions in residential districts
The sickening attacks hitting civilians involving swarms of drones came as negotiators from both sides are due to meet on Monday in Saudi Arabia for US-brokered talks to discuss a ceasefire
As the onslaught was underway, one Telegram channel posted: ‘There is chaos in the sky of the capital right now.’
Mayor Vitali Klitschko said: ‘A massive enemy drone attack on Kyiv.’
Fires were reported in high rise apartment blocks around the city as an air raid alarm lasted more than five hours from the Shahed drones.
Air defences shot down 97 of the 147 drones targeting Ukraine, but in Kyiv these triggered explosions and fires as they hit buildings.
One woman died after drone debris ignited a fire in Dniprovskyi district and another person was killed in the Holosiivskyi district.
The night attacks hit Kyiv, and the Kharkiv, Sumy, Chernihiv, Odesa and Donetsk regions.
It was the second night in succession that Russian strikes had wiped out a father and daughter.
The previous night in Zaporizhzhia, a Russian strike on tragic innocent civilians killed Ulyana-Hrystyna Malenko, 17, and her Roman Malenko, 41.
Fires were reported in high rise apartment blocks around the city as an air raid alarm lasted more than five hours from the Shahed drones
Air defences shot down 97 of the 147 drones targeting Ukraine, but in Kyiv these triggered explosions and fires as they hit buildings
The night attacks hit Kyiv, and the Kharkiv, Sumy, Chernihiv, Odesa and Donetsk regions
Hours later her mother Olga Malenko, 38, died in hospital after being pulled alive from the rubble.
An elder daughter Viktoria was not at the family home when the drone struck.
Ukraine targeted Russia with drones, with one person in a car reported dead in Rostov region.
An oil refinery was the target of strikes in Volgograd and Astrakhan.
The Russian defence ministry reported 59 drones were destroyed overnight.
New explosions were reported at key Russian oil exporting point Kavkazskaya as flames shot hundreds of feet into the sky.
This facility was originally hit on Wednesday and has been ablaze since then, damaging Russian oil supply lines.
