Tiny babies just hours old were evacuated from a neonatal unit in Ukraine to a makeshift shelter to avoid Russian bombing.
Brave doctors and nurses rushed about twelve of the newborns to the basement of the building in Dnipro.
Staff from the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Children’s Hospital cradled the infants amid fears for their lives.
There have been reports of other hospitals suffering missile damage in cities put under siege by Vladimir Putin’s forces.
Referring to the bunker, Dr Denis Surkov, 51, chief of the neonatal unit at Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Children’s Hospital, said: “This is the neonatal intensive care unit. In a bomb shelter.
“Can you imagine? This is our reality.”
It was reported earlier that the oncology centre of another hospital was left ablaze after Kremlin forces opened fire.
Heavy fire close to the hospital followed by explosions in the building were shown in footage captured in Melitopol in the south east of the country, the Daily Mirror has reported.
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 II.
The UK will personally sanction 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 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 - a move which could cripple Russia’s ability to trade with most of the world.
