A shopping centre in Ukraine has been razed to the ground as Putin's forces continue to bombard areas packed with innocent civilians.
Aerial images show plumes of smoke billowing into the air after a factory and shopping centre in Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, was hit by airstrikes earlier today.
Civilians ran for their lives across the city today as Russian troops targeted their escape routes.
An estimated eight people, including two children, were slaughtered when Russian forces opened fire on citizens trying to flee the city by bus, the city's mayor, Oleksandr Markushin, said.
Three more Ukrainians died when Russians shelled a damaged bridge in the city they were using to escape.
It is not known exactly how many civilians were killed in Irpin, which lies 16 miles northwest of the capital Kyiv, and which has been the target of a Russian bombardment in recent days.
The UN says 364 Ukrainian civilians have been confirmed killed in fighting, including 20 children, with hundreds more injured, many of them seriously.
But there are fears the death toll may be much higher, with the Ukrainian emergency services saying more than 2,000 civilians have died.
It came amid reports of Russian losses of 11,000 troops, sparking fears Moscow is planning more ferocious attacks on soldiers and civilians, with increasingly deadly weapons.
Russian forces also pounded the key port city of Mariupol. Ukraine officials confirmed a second attempted evacuation of the city was smashed by shelling. Fleeing civilians were meant to be given a nine-hour safety corridor.
But artillery fire hit the city within seconds of an agreed time for the ceasefire to begin. It came 24 hours after the first failed ceasefire.
Interior ministry adviser Anton Garashchenko said: “There can be no green corridors because only the sick brain of the Russians decides when to start shooting and at whom.”
It sparked fresh calls for war crimes prosecution of Russian troops, commanders and even President Vladimir Putin for targeting civilians.
Mariupol mayor Vadym Boychenko, who represents 200,000 residents, said in a video call: “They are destroying us.
“They will not even give us an opportunity to count the wounded and the killed because the shelling does not stop.”
In the port city, mothers mourned slain children, wounded soldiers were fitted with tourniquets and doctors worked by the light of their smartphones to save lives.
Dead bodies lay in the street, apartment blocks burned, while residents ran out of water and food.
Mayor Boychenko added: “The city is in a very, very difficult state of siege.
"Relentless shelling of residential blocks is ongoing, airplanes have been dropping bombs on residential areas.”
