Baby among 5 dead as Putin unleashes strikes on Ukraine hours after revenge vow to ‘show middle finger to world’
VLADIMIR Putin has killed five Ukrainian civilians in his latest overnight attacks just hours after labelling Kyiv as "terrorists".
A one-year-old child, their mum and grandma were all killed in Chernihiv with another 17 seriously wounded in Kharkiv after relentless Russian drone strikes.
At least six drones were used in the attack with residential homes left severely damaged, the regional governor of Chernihiv said on Telegram.
Another six were injured and rushed to hospital, he added.
The three generations of Ukrainians who died were reportedly crushed underneath their own home after a Russian Shahed kamikaze drone onslaught.
The National Police of Ukraine said in a statement: “The women and child were found under the rubble.
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"There is also information about six wounded."
In Kharkiv, at least 18 more people were wounded, including four children.
The youngest victim was a seven-year-old with a pregnant woman and a 93-year-old female pensioner also being hospitalised.
One Russian drone hit the 16th floor of a residential building as another struck the wall of a five-story building.
Mayor Ihor Terekhov called it “targeted terror” against civilians by the twisted Kremlin regime.
Russia targeted three other regions overnight including a military training camp in Poltava, the residential area of Kherson and a medical facility in Odesa, Ukrainian media reports.
The attacks were seen as revenge from Putin after Ukrainian strikes destroyed his strategic bomber aircraft over the weekend.
The Kremlin dictator held a 75 minute phone call with Donald Trump on Wednesday as they discussed rising tensions in Ukraine.
Trump revealed that Putin feels he “will have to respond” to the audacious drone assault on his strike planes which disabled 30 per cent of his nuclear attack aviation.
The daring Operation Spiderweb saw a fierce Ukrainian drone blitz wreck 41 Russian planes across four strategic airfields, in a coordinated assault likened to WWII’s most audacious missions.
A humiliated Putin accused Ukraine of being “terrorists” and citing civilian deaths in the strikes.
But Volodymyr Zelensky hit back at the tyrant's comments and warned Putin “feels impunity” and “is showing the middle finger to the entire world”.
The Ukrainian leader also appeared to blame Trump for failing to pressure Putin.
