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Hollie Bone

Spine-chilling moment missile strikes residential block in battle for Kyiv

This is the devastating moment a missile can be seen flying into the side of a residential building in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Blue skies can be seen shining down on the city before the missile crashes into the high rise flats, destroying one side and leaving smoke billowing around them.

The spine-chilling clip emerged with other videos and pictures on social media, prompting many to question whether the building had been evacuated yet.

Miraculously, Ukrianian officials confirmed no one had been killed in the blast on Saturday morning, but the building which appears to have over 22 storeys is close to a Kyiv airport.

Anton Herashchenko, who confirmed the strike was not fatal, also said Russia was lying about not
shelling civilian infrastructure.

According to the adviser, at least 40 such sites had been hit and Russian troops were shelling civilian sites.

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Another horrific clip shows an unidentified air defence strike in the sky over Khmelnitsky region.

RT head Margarita Simonyan - seen as a leading Putin cheerleader - accused the Armed Forces of Ukraine of deploying Grads missile launchers in residential areas.

“Only terrorists do this. This is a war crime. They are asking Putin: bomb our people,” she said.

Wagner - a private mercenary army seen as having Kremlin links - indicated they would join the war in Ukraine.

We will do exactly the same to you, Ukraine, as what you’ve done to Donbas,” said the group in a website post.

We are against those who kill children, women and elderly.”

People have been urged to stay and fight if they can - many have been armed with weapons (AFP via Getty Images)

An appeal has been signed by more Russian doctors to Putin to stop the war.

So far 350 have backed the call - but the number is rising fast.

“The war will take so many lives, cripple so many destinies that we won’t be able to help however hard we try,” they said.

“And everyone will be screaming in pain, calling for their mother, in one and the same language’.

Vladimir Putin launched his full scale Russian invasion on Ukraine on Thursday, Feb 24, first seizing the Chernobyl exclusion zone.

President Zelensky has allegedly refused an evacuation offer by the US (via REUTERS)

Paratroopers were deployed to guard the nuclear power plant which left devastated the town of Pripyat with a nuclear explosion in 1986.

On Friday Ukraine raised fears about 'excess' levels of radiation, suggesting that Russian troops moving in had disturbed the top soil and were kicking up radioactive dusts, but the Kremlin denied this.

Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelensky has remained adamant that those able to should stay in Ukraine and fight, as he handed out weapons to the public to stop Putin's men.

The Russian invasion declared its intentions to take Kyiv as it began to surround the capital on three sides, targeting key airfields and ports along the way.

A close up image of the residential block shows the scale of the damage (REUTERS)

President Zelensky claimed that he was "target number one" with his family named as "target number two" adding that Ukrainian intelligence suggested Putin's plan was to execute him in a bid to topple the Ukrainian political system.

But the Ukrainian leader said he would remain in Kyiv, despite alleged offers by US president to give him a safe "route out" of the country, Sky News reported.

Instead, Zelensky has posed in videos with his political team showing them remaining on the streets of the capital as he ordered all men aged 18-60 to stay and fight the enemy.

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