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.
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.
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Fears rapidly grew over people being trapped inside the ablaze block.
In the Holosiivskyi district of Kyiv a staggering 630 residential buildings were targeted and left without power, say Ukrainian officials.
Another 16 hospitals, 17 schools and 13 kindergartens were also left without heat due to the Russian assault blasting a main heating pipeline, according to mayor Vitaliy Klitschko.
In the nearby Shevchenkivsky district, rescue teams were sent out on recovery missions to try and search for people in the rubble of a public building.
Brave Ukraine air defences managed to down many of the incoming missiles but the cascading debris caused serious damage.
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.
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Two people were killed and 18 injured.
Some 60,000 were plunged into the cold as electricity supplies failed after the Russian attack.
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