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Heartbreaking picture shows baby carried to safety from rubble of Russian blast as Putin DENIES bombing of Ukraine
A HEARTBREAKING photo shows a soldier carrying a baby through the rubble to safety following a Russian attack.
Vladimir Putin has denied bombing Ukraine despite shocking pictures of the destruction and human suffering his forces are causing.
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The picture shows the infant's tiny head poking out of its baby suit as it's carried by the soldier across the river.
Behind is the twisted wreckage of a bridge with a minibus lying front end down in the water.
In the latest atrocities committed by Putin's forces, 47 people died in one attack on one city, allegedly using deadly cluster bombs, while a school was reduce to rubble in another.
But in a phone call with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the Russian tyrant insisted the information about bombing was fake.
The Kremlin later put out a statement saying "the alleged ongoing airstrikes of Kyiv and other large cities are gross propaganda fakes".
Delusional Putin said he was open to talks with Ukraine but only under the condition "all Russian demands are met".
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These include the neutral and non-nuclear status of Ukraine, its “denazification,” recognition of Crimea as part of Russia, and the “sovereignty” of separatist territories in eastern Ukraine.
This comes as a US official says Russia is getting ready to deploy 1,000 additional mercenaries to Ukraine in the near future, according to CNN.
Putin's bizarre denial comes as he claimed the war he unleashed has been a "success", despite the Russian army suffering heavy losses.
Just over a week after Putin ordered his troops into Ukraine, the battle continues to rage with Russian forces shelling Europe's largest nuclear power plant, sparking radiation leak fears.
Harrowing images have shown the world the damage and the human misery inflicted by Russian forces, who have also been accused of committing mass rapes.
Russian forces have yet to take the capital Kyiv but the city's defenders are braced for the coming onslaught.
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Boris Johnson has pledged more UK military aid for Ukraine as the country fights for its survival.
"So the situation is very, very bleak for them, I’m afraid to say," he told the Express.
“The Russian war machine is enormous, still encircling cities, tightening its grip around them.
“And what we’re trying to do is keep getting aid going through to the Ukrainians, to try to supply them with defensive weaponry."
In an another day of attacks unleased by Putin's forces, mothers and children were forced to take shelter in the basement of the hospital in a residential area of Zhytomyr.
At least two died in the hospital attack, while a nearby school was reduced to rubble.
Zhytomyr - which had so far escaped heavy damage - lies 90 miles west of Kyiv on the main road used by refugees heading to Poland and Hungary.
Irpin, near Kyiv, also came under heavy fire shelling which set homes on fire.
Some of the worst destruction has been in Chernihiv in the northeast, where horrifying pictures showed blocks of flats turned to smouldering ruins.
More victims were pulled from the rubble today as rescuers confirmed the death toll from one attack had risen to 47.
Chilling video filmed in the aftermath showed bodies strewn across the streets in one of the hardest-hit regions of the conflict.
It comes as...
- Vladimir Putin may be seriously ill, which could be triggering his desperate attempt to conquer Ukraine, experts have claimed
- Russian soldiers are accused of raping Ukrainian women, according to Ukraine's foreign ministry
- Europe's biggest nuclear power plant, Enerhodar, is in Russian hands after a fierce battle overnight triggered a fire and fears of a deadly radiation leak
- The Klitschko brothers have warned the world is facing 'a Chernobyl/Fukushima combined' in the wake of the raid
- Ukrainian troops shot down a Russian attack helicopter in dramatic footage
- The world's biggest plane, the Antonov An-225, has been destroyed after Russian troops blasted it at the Hostomel airfield outside of Kyiv
- More of Putin's top military chiefs have been killed after personally charging to the battlefield to rescue their stalled invasion.
Windows were shattered in the blast, while burned-out cars scatter the road following the strike on Thursday.
Dashcam footage captures the moment a flurry of rockets hit the city of around 290,000 people.
Suddenly, a massive blast explodes directly in front of the driver. As the smoke begins to clear, dozens flee from the blast.
Rescue crews were searching the rubble through the night for more victims.
A dramatic clip from the scene shows huge flames leaping into the sky following the blast.
The Kyiv Independent reported that a cruise missile landed on an apartment building near Pavlusenko Hospital.
Kyiv's Mayor, former world heavyweight boxing champion Vitali Klitschko, claims a 40-mile convoy of Russian military vehicles are getting closer to the capital city after their advance was stalled by days of fierce Ukrainian resistance.
He told a briefing at foreign policy think-tank Chatham House: "We have numerous cases of, unfortunately, when Russian soldiers rape women in the Ukrainian cities."
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Ukraine's foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba backed a call for the creation of a special tribunal to punish Moscow's aggression as Russia's hostility escalates beyond bombing.
He said international law "is the only tool of civilisation that is available to us to make sure that in the end, eventually, all those who made this war possible will be brought to justice".
He said: "We are fighting against the enemy who is much stronger than us.
"But the international law is on our side, and hopefully... it will make its own contribution to help us prevail."
Amnesty International has said Russia may have committed war crimes during the eight-day conflict, and accused Putin's forces of violating international humanitarian law.
"The Russian military has shown a blatant disregard for civilian lives by using ballistic missiles and other explosive weapons with wide-area effects in densely populated areas," the organisation's Secretary-General Agnes Callamard said.
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The International Criminal Court has announced it will investigate potential Russian war crimes in Ukraine.
Russia continues to deny it has carried out any illegal attacks.
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