VLADIMIR Putin was branded "evil" yesterday as Russia launched a sequence of lethal aerial assaults on Ukraine, killing 19 harmless civilians as they slept, together with a two-year-old lady.

Strategic bombers hit a number of residential targets in a single day, as air strikes have been launched on a number of cities throughout the nation, together with the capital Kyiv.

Olga Bilash, 31, and her daughter, two, have been killed when their dwelling was bombed in Dnipro.

An extra 17 individuals died within the central metropolis of Uman after missiles hit a residential block of flats, officers stated. One of the useless was stated to be a 10-year-old baby.

Olga's cousin Tetyana, 21, stated: "I want all Russians to rot and die. I want for this country to never exist. My world is ruined and empty."

Video footage posted on Telegram by Ukraine's State Border Service confirmed the badly broken condo constructing in Uman after the strikes.

There have been additionally explosions within the cities of Kremenchuk and Poltava.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated 10 residential buildings broken in Uman confirmed additional worldwide motion was wanted towards Russia.

"Evil can be stopped by weapons and sanctions. Global sanctions must be enhanced," he tweeted.

Taburets, head of the Cherkasy administration overlaying Uman, stated most of these killed perished when a missile hit a high-rise residential constructing.

One distraught girl with blood on her arms and face was proven on Ukrainian TV, together with the wreckage of her flat in Uman. She advised how her kids had narrowly escaped dying.

"A missile hit our flats," she stated. "We are all covered in blood. All windows were shattered. Children were sleeping here."

"They are all alive. We are all covered in blood. I got so scared."

The Russian missile assaults on Kyiv have been stated to be the primary in 51 days. There have been no fast reviews of civilian casualties within the capital.

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Officials claimed 21 out of 23 missiles heading for Kyiv and two assault drones had been shot down by Ukraine's air defence system.

The strikes got here only a day after the Kremlin welcomed "anything that could bring an end to the conflict".

This was in reference to a prolonged name between Chinese President Xi Jinping and President Zelensky this week.

Ukrainian forces are believed to be making ready for an enormous army counteroffensive with new gear, together with tanks, equipped by Western allies.

Russia has struggled to make headway in its lengthy winter offensive, together with an ongoing 10-month battle for management of the strategically essential metropolis of Bakhmut which has value 1000's of lives.