Putin launches massive wave of hypersonic missile strikes on Ukraine in revenge for assassination of top nuke general

VLADIMIR Putin has fired a terrifying wave of hypersonic missiles on Ukraine in a chilling revenge strike.

The attack targeted civilian areas in the capital Kyiv with deadly destruction also left across multiple districts.

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Plumes of smoke engulfed several regions of Ukraine due to the deadly attack[/caption]

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A residential block in Kyiv was left severely damaged in the blasts[/caption]

Firefighters look to put out a blaze in Ukraine following a missile blast

In Ukraine six people are believed to have been killed and at least 28 wounded due to Vlad’s vengeance strikes.

The attack was made up of lethal air-launched Kinzhal, or Dagger, hypersonic missiles and Iskander/KN-23 ballistic missiles.

It was seen as Putin’s revenge for the assassination of the dictator’s top nuclear defence general in Moscow on Tuesday.

Kyiv was left severely damaged due to the missile blasts with harrowing pictures showing tower blocks in the capital up in smoke.

Intense fires can be seen burning inside residential blocks with firefighters desperately battling to put out the flames.

In the Holosiivskyi district of Kyiv, 630 residential buildings, 16 hospitals, 17 schools and 13 kindergartens were left without heat due to the Russian damage to a main heating pipeline, said mayor Vitaliy Klitschko.

The façade of an office building was damaged and the 15th floor was destroyed with the roof ablaze, and fears people were trapped.

In Shevchenkivsky district, rescuers were searching for people in the ruins of an administrative building.

Air defences downed incoming missiles but debris fell, causing fires and damage in Kyiv, where one person died and nine were wounded.

Seven were wounded in the capital, and four hospitalised.

A warehouse was destroyed in an Iranian-designed drone strike near the city’s Boryspil airport.

Kyiv was also hit by a massive cyber attack on official records and registers.

Elsewhere in Ukraine, a ballistic missile hit a two-storey residential building in Kryvyi Rih, birthplace of Volodymyr Zelensky.

This injured six people, including a 15-year-old girl, and damaged surrounding homes.

Patients had to be moved from a hospital where windows were shattered.

In Kharkiv an Iskander-M missile strike destroyed 12 private homes, a postal facility, and outbuildings.

Two women, 65 and 67, and a man, 33, were killed.

In Kherson region, Russian artillery strikes from the occupied left bank of the Dnipro River targeted residential and civilian infrastructure, said reports.

Two people were killed and 18 injured.

Some 60,000 were plunged into the cold as electricity supplies failed after the Russian attack.