Putin unleashes hypersonic missile assault on Ukraine hitting shopping centre and homes as people pulled from rubble

RUSSIA has inflicted new terror on Ukraine early today with a mammoth new missile assault using its strategic warplanes including hypersonic Kinzhals.

A nationwide air raid alert was in force for the latest punishing strikes by Vladimir Putin’s forces.

Russia inflicted new terror on Ukraine early today with a mammoth new missile assault using its strategic warplanes including hypersonic Kinzhals

A nationwide air raid alert was in force

Emergency services amid their rescue efforts as an estimated 24 people were wounded

A building was seen engulfed in flames in Novomoskovsk, Dnipropetrovsk region.

A minibus was overturned by a blast wave.

Three administrative buildings, two filling stations, a five-story building, and cars were damaged.

According to preliminary data, 24 including five children were wounded in the city.

The wounded from the latest savage Putin attack included boys aged four and eight, and girls aged 11, 16 and 17.

There were dead and wounded from the wave of strikes in Dnipropetrovsk region.

In Krivoy Rog, a shopping centre and more than two dozen private houses were damaged.

A 58-year-old man received shrapnel wounds.

In the village of Lozovatka, a 62-year-old woman died under fire, according to reports.

In a repeat of an incident last week, a Russian war plane unleashed a missile on its own territory causing the evacuation of residents.

In Zmyiv, Kharkiv region, people were pulled out from the rubble after a strike, but rescuers were seeking one more feared to be buried under the ruins of a house.

Russian forces struck industrial facilities in Kharkiv, injuring three people.

Strikes also hit Zaporizhzhia and Khmelnytskyi regions.

Ukraine reported that the attacks included Kh-101/555 cruise missiles launched at least ten times by Tu-95 strategic bombers overflying the Caspian Sea.

Kinzhal hypersonic missiles were unleashed from MiG-31K warplanes.

S-300/S400 ballistic missiles were fired from occupied Crimea and the Russian region of Belgorod.

Kh-22/32 supersonic missiles were deployed from Tu-22M3 bombers overflying the Russians regions of Kursk and Voronezh.

Meanwhile in Russia, the authorities are evacuating children from the border city Belgorod which has faced intense attacks from Ukraine.

Regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said posted a video to reveal the move to other Russian regions.

“Over the past 24 hours, we have received 1,300 applications to send children from Belgorod to remote school camps in other regions [away from the war zone],” he said.

“I called my fellow governors from the Voronezh, Kaluga, Tambov, and Yaroslavl regions.

“They are all ready to help us.

“Now we have already sent our specialists to look at the location where the children are being placed.”

Adults too are demanding to bail out of a city just 25 miles from the border with Ukraine.

“Some 300 residents of Belgorod, who decided to temporarily evacuate, are at the moment being housed in temporary shelter centres in Stary Oskol, Gubkin and the Korochansky district,” said Gladkov.