The horrifying moment a Russian tank opened fire on a civilian car was caught on camera, killing the elderly couple inside.
The assault comes amid fresh calls for President Vladimir Putin as well as Russian commanders and troops to be prosecuted for war crimes over the targeting of civilians, the Mirror reports.
Seemingly captured by a nearby building's CCTV camera, footage of the incident shows the maroon Sedan travelling into the bottom left corner of the frame, before coming to a hault.
A moment later a military tank comes from around the corner towards the car, with gunshots appearing to strike a grassy verge just a few metres from the vehicle.
Grey smoke rises above the area between the two vehicles.
The tank slows as it continues around the corner before more gunshots are fired directly at the civilian car.
It is momentarily shrouded by smoke, which then clears to reveal a shelled car; the bonnet destroyed and the windows shattered. Yet another round of gunfire strikes the left hand side of the car, causing it to jerk back.
Pieces of the car fly off and onto the road.
Meanwhile, the Russian tank slowly turns around before driving back in the direction it came from.
The video, posted by @ArmedForcesUkr, is tweeted with the caption: “Shooting of a civilian car with people. Russian invaders!”
Another clip posted to Twitter by a woman named Anastasia Horoshchak, who claims to be a Russian citizen, captured a man walking around the battered car while speaking in Ukrainian.
Close-up footage of the car showed the extent of the damage; little glass is left where the windows once were and the bonnet and shell of the doors have been blown off to reveal the mechanics underneath.
The man opens the doors to reveal an elderly man in the driver’s seat, with an elderly woman beside him, her head having drooped to rest on his shoulder.
Bloody holes can be seen on the man’s body where the gunshots have struck him.
On what remains of the windscreen, a yellow disability sticker can be seen.
The caption accompanying the video said: “They shot a car with a sign of disability.
“Two retirees going home.
“Russian peace looks like this???”
A tweet from the Kyiv Independent this afternoon said war crimes like those captured in the video were “part of Russia ’s deliberate strategy”.
“Dmytro Kuleba wrote on Twitter that Russia holds 300,000 civilians hostage in Mariupol, a city in Donetsk Oblast, and prevents humanitarian evacuation despite agreements with the Red Cross mediation,” it continued.
In a video address from an undisclosed location, President Volodymyr Zelensky said a child had died of dehydration in the blockaded southern port of Mariupol, in a sign of how desperate the city's population has become.
He pleaded again with western countries to provide air support.
He said evacuation buses have been sent to Mariupol, but there was no firm agreement on the route, so "Russian troops can simply shoot on this transport on the way".
Mr Zelensky accused the International Red Cross of "forbidding the use of its emblem on our cars", but did not give details.
Buses shown heading out of the city of Sumy and towards Mariupol had signs with a red cross on the side but it is not clear who pasted them there.
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