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A UKRAINIAN mum has been left devastated after a Russian missile strike blew off her daughter’s head while she was sitting on a park bench.
Harrowing pictures showed the mum breaking down in tears as she sat just inches away from her daughter’s slaughtered body in Kharkiv.
The shattered Ukrainian mum was seen sitting just inches away from her daughter’s body on the bench where she was killedTwitter
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Heartbreaking footage showed the girl’s head after it was blown to shred by a missile’s shrapnel.
A thick pool of blood covered the area where she was sitting – and her lifeless body was left lying on the park bench.
The Sun has chosen not to show the disturbing image to our readers.
Tragic footage caught the mum grieving as cops moved her daughter’s body before taking it to a morgue in Kharkiv.
The raging mum said: “She was just 14 years old. She had her whole life ahead of her.”
The devasted woman also tragically lost her husband who has been presumed dead after he went missing in Ukraine’s war-torn Donetesk region.
Ukraine has long suffered the brutality of evil Vladimir Putin who has been bombing areas deep inside the country – often targeting civilians.
This morning, Russian forces blitzed Kyiv with a barrage of missiles, injuring at least two people and damaging key infrastructure.
Kyiv’s air defence units destroyed more than 10 cruise missiles and nearly 10 ballistic missiles as air raid alerts went off across the city, Reuter reports.
Just days ago, Russia blitzed Ukraine with a barrage of missiles and drones barrage that killed several people and sparked mass power cuts.
Sirens blared across Ukraine as Putin unleashed a wave of bombers to rain hell on Kyiv in a harsh response to the Kursk invasion.
President Zelensky Zelensky confirmed Russia horrifically used over 200 missiles and drones in the deadly strike, adding that “a lot of damage” was caused to the energy sector on Telegram.
A 14-year-old girl was among seven dead after barbaric Putin unleashed a wave of glide bombs on Ukraine.
The dictator’s forces targeted a playground and an apartment building in Ukraine’s eastern city of Kharkiv today injuring dozens more.
The State Emergency Service said 77 people were injured including 18 children.
Meanwhile, a separate Russian strike on a Ukrainian hotel killed an ex-brit soldier while leaving six others severely injured.
Rescuers discovered the body of Ryan Evans, who was a safety advisor for the Reuters news agency, in the rubble of a hotel in the eastern town of Kramatorsk.
Evans, 38, was killed after a missile struck the Hotel Sapphire where he was staying as part of a six-person team on Saturday, Reuters said in a statement.
Two of his colleagues were also injured in the blast and were being treated in hospital.
Evans, a former British soldier, had been working with Reuters since 2022 and advised its journalists on safety around the world including in Ukraine, Israel and at the Paris Olympics.
Russia has a brutal history of bombing public areas deep inside Ukraine – often targeting civilians and key infrastructure.
In July, a Russian hypersonic missile struck a children’s hospital in Kyiv – killing 41 innocent civilians.
Horrific footage captured a high-speed Russian KH-101 hypersonic rocket, one of the many cruise, ballistic, aerial and guided missiles launched by Putin’s ruthless forces, entering Kyiv.
Two children, Maksym Simaniuk, 10, and his sister Anastasia, nine, died alongside their mother Zoryana, 40, in a separate attack.
Their tragic death came as one of the many Russian missiles hit their five-storey residential block in the city.
At least 12 people and four children – including Maksym and Anastasia – died in the devastating wave of attacks.
Distressing images showed the debris of the apartment block where the bodies of the brother and sister, along with their mother, were discovered.
Immediately after the strike, children’s voices were among those screaming for help from beneath the rubble.
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Tyrant Putin has a brutal history of bombing public areas deep inside Ukraine‘GENOCIDAL BLITZ’
Horrific pictures showed children wounded in the hospital attack, one-wheeled into an ambulance on a stretcher as he sobbed.
Another chilling photograph shows a toddler covered in blood at a hospital.
A group of young cancer patients gathered with their parents and doctors, attached to drips as they watched on in horror.
Kids with cancer were forced to pause chemotherapy treatment as medics evacuated the hospital’s oncology ward.
Ukraine’s health minister said at least three sick children were mid-way through open-heart surgeries when the missiles struck.
Mother Marina Ploskonos said her 4-year-old son was recovering from spinal surgery when the missiles struck.
Bursting into tears, she said: “My child is terrified. This shouldn’t be happening, it’s a children’s hospital.”
One doctor even said he leapt onto his patients to protect them from flying glass and debris.
Others were seen helping fellow colleagues and fellow parties – despite being wounded themselves.
Among those killed in the Russian strike on the children’s hospital was Svitlana Lukyanchik, 30, a paediatric kidney doctor.
She was an orphan from Lviv who became a leading doctor after graduating from Ukraine’s National Medical University.
One on-ground journalist said Lukyanchik wanted to “help the most defenceless kids.”
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia hit five cities in a “genocidal” attack.
He demanded Moscow answer “for all its crimes” against people, children and humanity.
His chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, accused Russia of “deliberately targeting” children.
TYRANT’S BLOODY ARSENAL
Putin’s unforgiving forces have been dropping terrifying thermobaric bombs to thwart a Ukrainian advance.
Known as a vacuum bomb, the devastating weapon is capable of wiping out huge numbers by making its victims suffocate on deadly chemicals or causing their lungs to explode.
It was originally developed by the Nazis in World War Two but first used by the US in Vietnam.
Releasing the bombs is not a breach of international law as long as civilians aren’t being targeted with them.
Russia has a chilling past with thermobaric bombs after they reportedly dropped one on a Ukrainian oil depot in 2022.
Putin has also used six-tonne X-22 missiles designed to sink warships to blow up civilian homes and baby hospitals.
The missile is a six-tonne rocket with a one-tonne warhead capable of being fitted with a nuke – and is meant for destroying massive warships.
Soviet Union engineers created the weapon during the Cold War.
It was designed to sink US aircraft carriers should World War 3 break out.
They are also known as “carrier killers”.
Flying towards their target at speeds of up to 3,500mph, the land or air-fired missile has potentially devastating firepower.
But instead, Putin’s twisted forces are firing them against innocent people in their own homes.
In a previous statement, Ukrainian defence chief Andriy Zagorodnyuk said: “[Kh-22s were] originally designed in the 1960s to attack air carriers.
“But Russians decided to use it against civilians.”
Since the beginning of the invasion, Russian troops have fired more than 300 X-22 missiles at Ukraine, none of which were shot down by the country’s air defence system.
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