DEATH FROM ABOVE
Horror as Russian bombs caught on dashcam just before slamming into flats in city where 33 killed
TERRIFYING dashcam footage has caught the moment Russian bombs flew overhead and slammed into a block of flats.
The horror unfolded in the city of Chernihiv, where 33 civilians have pulled from the rubble of apartment blocks destroyed by Russian air strikes.
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A week after Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine, Russian troops have been making gains after capturing their first major city, Kherson in the south, after a fierce battle.
A battle for Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in Energodar, also in southern Ukraine, has also been raging.
The horror in Chernihiv unfolds as he car turned a corner and began driving along a road before around a dozen bombs rained down from the sky about 100 yards ahead.
The sound of the bombs falling at speed can be heard - followed by a loud boom and flames as they slam into the flats.
Terrified civilians can be seen fleeing from the inferno as smoke rises and the wailing of a car alarm pierces the air.
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Throughout the day, Russian warplanes fired missiles at apartment blocks in the centre of the city, which is about 100 miles north-east of the capital Kyiv.
Harrowing photographs show burnt out buildings in the city as firefighters tried to put out flames.
The blitz on Chernihiv comes as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stood defiant as he vowed Vladimir Putin would pay the price for every dead Ukrainian.
Towns and villages in the wider Kyiv region also bore the brunt of the attacks - with pictures showing an apartment block totally destroyed in nearby Borodyanka.
Zelenskyy - a former comedian turned politician, who has been hailed as a hero for his leadership during the crisis - pledged to strike back against Russia.
"We will rebuild every single house, every single street, every single city," he said.
"And we are telling Russia - learn the words 'reparations' and 'contributions'.
"You will pay back fully to us for what you've done against our state, against our every single Ukrainian."
It comes as:
- One of Vladimir Putin’s top generals was shot dead by a sniper in a major blow to the Kremlin’s war plan to annihilate Ukraine.
- Putin issued a ferocious defence of his invasion of Ukraine tonight, bizarrely claiming the war has been a "success"
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stood defiant as he vowed Vladimir Putin would pay the price for every dead Ukrainian.
- Kyiv remains under siege as Russia continues to advance across the whole of Ukraine
- Kherson became the first city to be captured by Vladimir Putin's forces amid major bloodshed in Kharkiv, Mariupol and Chernihiv
- Russian soldiers were pictured crying and begging to return home after being captured
- Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov - who bankrolled Everton - had his £600million superyacht seized in Germany
Russia launched a large scale invasion of Ukraine one week ago today and the bloodshed has not ceased since.
More than 2,000 civilians are believed to have been killed in the attack which has seen cities become warzones.
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And the conflict shows no signs of stopping, despite ongoing peace talks.
Putin himself issued a ferocious defence of his invasion of Ukraine tonight, bizarrely claiming the war has been a "success", despite the Russian army suffering heavy losses.
Russia has now admitted for the first time it had suffered casualties during its invasion - saying 500 soldiers have been killed and around 1,600 have been wounded.
Hopes of a quick victory have evaporated as harrowing images have emerged of burnt out Russian vehicles and sobbing soldiers after they surrendered.
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Russia's president said the Ukrainians have been "brainwashed" and insisted his soldiers are the "real heroes".
Denying Ukrainian claims Russian forces are deliberately targeting civilians, Putin instead blamed the 2,000 civilian casualties so far on "neo-Nazis" holding the people of Ukraine hostage.
In his first address since the start of the conflict eight days ago, Putin admitted his forces had lost "some small towns", and acknowledged that some Russian forces, including a senior commander, had died in the fight.
But he claimed the officer had blown himself up in a heroic act of sacrifice, taking out several Ukrainian troops.
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He gave no indication of when the war might end.
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