RUSSIA has killed at least 11 people as it blasted Ukrainian cities overnight with one of Vladimir Putin’s most brutal assaults in recent months.
More than 100 others, including children, were injured as the ageing tyrant unleashed more than 650 drones and 73 missiles on Ukraine.
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A huge explosion during drone and missile attacks in Kyiv on June 2 Credit: AFP
The Ukrainian capital was targeted in one of the largest attacks of Putin’s war on Ukraine Credit: Reuters
The deranged dictator targeted the cities of Kyiv, Dnipro, Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia overnight.
His strikes killed at least six people in Dnipro, Ukraine‘s fourth-largest city, and four in Kyiv.
Huge plumes of of smoke could be seen rising from the Ukrainian capital after blasts rocked the city.
Residents took shelter in underground stations as air raid sirens rang out.
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A building is set alight after a Russian strike Credit: East2West
A huge mushroom cloud forms after a brutal strike Credit: East2West
Emergency crews raced to find survivors trapped in the rubble in Kyiv.
Kyiv military chief Tymur Tkachenko said: “The enemy is striking with ballistic missiles.”
Ukraine’s air force said it had stopped 40 missiles and 602 drones, but around 38 targets were hit.
Kyiv’s mayor Vitali Klitschko said there were fears people were trapped underneath destroyed buildings.
Ukrainian firefighters work at the site next to a multi storey residential building damaged following massive Russian missile and drone strikes on Kyiv Credit: AFP
Emergency workers respond to a fire in a car dealership that was struck in the Ukrainian capital Credit: Reuters
Shocking photos show the devastation left by Putin’s huge blitz.
It came after Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky warned yesterday that “a massive strike is possible”.
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“The Kyiv leadership decided to open a new chapter in their series of crimes, to give a new quality to the conflict as a whole,” said Putin, adding: “Well, that’s their choice.”
After the strikes, the Russian defence ministry said: “In response to Ukraine’s terrorist attacks, the Russian military launched a massive strike on defence industry enterprises in Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, and Dnipro.”
Meanwhile, Ukrainian drones set ablaze Ilsky Oil Refinery in Russia‘s Krasnodar region.
Nato scrambled fighters close to the Ukrainian border over Poland amid the intense onslaught from Russia.
It comes after a Russian drone smashed into a block of flats in Romania, a key Nato member, leaving multiple people injured.
A fire erupted from the 10-storey block after the unprecedented strike as the Nato alliance scrambled fighter jets to respond to the “serious violation”.
The heavy impact resulted in the first confirmed civilian injuries, reportedly a woman and child, by a Kremlin drone on Nato territory since the start of Vladimir Putin’s war.
