A GAS pipeline has been blown up in the latest set of chilling attacks by Vladimir Putin in Ukraine leaving at least five people dead.
The constant barrage of missile strikes left another 40 injured as buildings were set on fire, people walked around badly wounded and a disabled children’s care home was blitzed.
The Armageddon attack by Putin saw multiple civilian casualties as horror footage from Kharkiv showed a demolished residential area in ruins and people left bloodied.
The Russian dictator has regularly said his forces don’t strike civilians despite the latest fatal attacks.
Russia deployed missile aircraft’s as they unleashed horror onto cities around war-torn Ukraine including in Kyiv.
Nine were hurt in the capital as thick, black smoke was seen taking over the city skyline after a tall residential building was struck and left crumbling to the ground.
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Kyiv was also reportedly shaken by ten devastating explosions that rocked the city and saw at least eight people being rushed to hospital.
A Kh-101 missile was seen firing heat traps during the assault on Kyiv.
Kyiv mayor Vitalii Klitchko said: “An unexploded warhead of a rocket was found in one of the apartments in a residential building in Sviatoshynsky district.
“People are being evacuated from the house.”
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A separate missile strike moments later saw one person dead in Pavlohrad.
It’s feared that the number of deaths and injuries could continue to climb as the rubble gets cleared away across the country.
Kharkiv was left without power in many areas as they were struck by at least seven explosions – one of which left a block of flats completely destroyed and on fire.
Two were killed in the missile attacks and 13 suffered bad injuries including a 10-year-old girl who was quickly rushed to the nearest hospital.
Two other women were left in a serious condition as kids were reported as having nasty cuts from flying shrapnel.
Explosions were also reported in the Sumy region, Dnepropetrovsk region and Zhitomyr, as Ukraine faced a barrage of vicious assaults.
In Kyiv’s Svyatoshinsky district, the area was left ablaze as buildings and cars were set on fire and devastation plagued those living nearby.
Some even made claims of seeing flying debris hitting young children as a kindergarten was hit by a blast.
The wave of attacks come days after the Tekstilshchiki district of Donetsk city was hit by strikes that saw 27 people killed and at least 20 were wounded.
Russia is believed to have taken revenge after the deaths were blamed on Ukrainian shelling of civilians by Moscow.
Ukraine denied playing any role in the shelling and said Russia had hit the Putin-controlled market by themselves.
Pro-Kremlin online media outlet Mash said Russia had staged “a large-scale attack on military-industrial complex facilities and the fuel infrastructure of Ukraine”.
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