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A GAS pipeline has been been blown up in the latest chilling attack by Vladimir Putin in Ukraine leaving three people dead.
The pipeline exploded in Kharkiv and caused a children’s care home to be disabled and another 13 injured.
The devastating aftermath of Russia’s attack in Kharkiv[/caption]Russia deployed missile aircraft’s as they unleashed the horror attacks onto cities around war-torn Ukraine including in the capital of Kyiv.
Nine were hurt in Kyiv as thick, black smoke was seen taking over the city skyline after a tall residential building was struck and left crumbling to the ground.
Kyiv was also reportedly shaken by ten devastating explosions that rocked the city.
A separate missile strike saw one dead in Pavlohrad.
The number of deaths and injuries could potentially rise as the rubble gets cleared.
Kharkiv was left without power in many areas as they were struck by at least seven explosions – one of which left a block of flats completely destroyed and on fire.
Two were killed in the missile attacks and 13 suffered bad injuries including a 10-year-old girl who was quickly rushed to the nearest hospital.
Two other women were left in a serious condition as kids were reported as having nasty cuts from flying shrapnel.
Rescuers were removing the rubble, where people might be trapped, the local authorities reported.
Explosions were also reported in the Sumy region, Dnepropetrovsk region and Zhitomyr.
In Kyiv’s Svyatoshinsky district, a building and cars were on fire, and there were claims of debris hitting a kindergarten.
In Solomensky district, windows in an apartment building were smashed by a blast wave.
One victim was hospitalised.
In Pechersky district, a non-residential building was hit
Emergency services were at the scene.
At least eight were hospitalised in Kyiv.
A Kh-101 missile was seen firing heat traps during a strike on Kyiv.
Kyiv mayor Vitalii Klitchko said: “An unexploded warhead of a rocket was found in one of the apartments in a residential building in Sviatoshynsky district.
“People are being evacuated from the house.”
The wave of strikes will be seen as Russian revenge for an attack on a market in the Tekstilshchiki district of Donetsk city on Sunday in which 27 were killed and at least 20 wounded.
The deaths were blamed by Moscow on Ukrainian shelling of civilians.
Ukraine strongly denied responsibility and said Russia had hit the market in the Putin-controlled invaded territory.
Ukraine has in recent days hit targets in Putin’s home city St Petersburg and the surrounding Leningrad region.
Pro-Kremlin online media outlet Mash said Russia had staged “A large-scale attack on military-industrial complex facilities and the fuel infrastructure of Ukraine”.
Armageddon attack by Putin on Ukraine sees gas pipeline explode in Kharkiv and residential buildings hit in Kyiv with multiple civilian casualties
Footage from Kharkiv showed a blitzed residential area with ruined blocks of flats and clouds of smoke and fire after Putin’s latest missile strike.
The Russian dictator regularly states that his forces do not strike civilians.
Later it emerged five people were killed, at least 40 were injured throughout Ukraine as a result of the morning attack by Russia.