Newborn babies, some just hours old, were rushed from the safety of a neonatal unit in Ukraine to a makeshift shelter to avoid Putin’s bombs.
About twelve of the tiny infants were taken by brave doctors and nurses to the basement of the building in Dnipro.
Inside, they were carefully cradled by staff from Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Children’s Hospital who feared for the lives of their young charges, The Sun reports.
It follows reports of other hospitals suffering missile damage in cities under siege by heavily armed Kremlin forces.
Dr Denis Surkov, 51, chief of the neonatal unit at Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Children’s Hospital said of the bunker: “This is the neonatal intensive care unit. In a bomb shelter.
“Can you imagine? This is our reality.”
Earlier it was reported that the oncology centre of another hospital was left in flames after Russian forces opened fire on the building.
Shocking footage shot in Melitopol, in the south east of the war-torn nation, showed heavy fire close to the hospital before explosions in the building.
The site then immediately starts to burn before more gunshots are aimed at the centre - used to help those suffering with cancer - leaving dozens of bullet holes.
Russian missiles are said to have destroyed a nursery elsewhere in Ukraine, with drone footage seeming to show the bodies of two adults surrounded by blood outside the building.
Outraged Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba wrote on Twitter : “Today’s Russian attacks on a kindergarten and an orphanage are war crimes and violations of the Rome Statute.#
“Together with the General Prosecutor’s Office we are collecting this and other facts, which we will immediately send to the Hague.
“Responsibility is inevitable."
Pictures were also shared of scared Ukrainian children being led down into metro systems to shelter from Russian shelling as air raid sirens sound in sombre echoes of World War Two.
The UK will personally sanction Vladimir Putin and his foreign minister Sergei Lavrov after Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine , Downing Street has said.
Boris Johnson told a virtual meeting of Nato leaders that London will target the Russian President and his key ally in Moscow "imminently" over the Kremlin's “revanchist mission” to overturn the post-Cold War order.
The PM also urged fellow leaders to "inflict maximum pain on President Putin and his regime" by ejecting Russia from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) network - something which could cripple Russia’s ability to trade with most of the world.
