'I'LL HUNT YOU DOWN'
Zelenskyy vows to kill ‘every b*****d’ shooting Ukrainian civilians as he warns ‘beast’ Putin is coming for West next
UKRAINIAN President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowed to "kill every b*****d" who has shot civilians as he warned the West will be next if the world doesn't stop "the beast" Vladimir Putin.
His fighting talk comes as harrowing images have been emerging throughout the campaign showing innocent victims of the war - including a family dead by the roadside in Irpin, near Kyiv.
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The 44-year-old former comedian - who has obtained hero status for his stalwart wartime leadership - warned the world that Putin won't stop with Ukraine.
And it comes as the war rolls on with civilians baring the the brunt of the bloodshed as they come under indiscriminate shelling and rocket fire.
Russia continues its slow, grinding and costly advance towards Kyiv - losing 11,000 troops so far, according to the Ukrainians - amid ongoing peace talks.
Western nations have condemned the war and slapped on more sanctions, but have stopped short of sending in troops or imposing a no-fly zone.
Zelenskyy has repeatedly called for a no-fly zone - but it is feared such a measure could draw the West into a hot war with Russia.
And the president warned that Putin will not stop with Ukraine.
He said: "We will come first. You will come second. Because the more this beast will eat, he wants more, more, and more."
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Zelenskyy went on: "Today, war is here. Tomorrow, it will be in Lithuania, then in Poland, then in Germany.
"This is serious."
And in what was both a brazen taunt to Russia and a show of solidarity to his people, he returned to Kyiv's presidential palace.
"I am here, I am not hiding, and I am not afraid of anyone," he said.
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The president has been hunkering down in a bunker as he stays in Ukraine despite US offers to evacuate him as he dodges Russia's death squads.
Speaking in a televised address last night, Zelenskyy spoke about the harrowing pictures which have shocked the world.
It showed a family who had been blown up by the Russians as they tried to flee surrounded by their luggage.
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"A man, a woman and two children. Right on the road… when they were just trying to get out of town. To escape," he raged.
"The whole family. How many such families have died in Ukraine! We will not forgive. We will not forget.
"We will punish everyone who committed atrocities in this war. On our land. We will find every b*****d.
It comes as:
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowed the 'kill ever b*****d' who was shooting and shelling Ukrainian civilians
- Zelenskyy is due to address British MPs today from his bunker as he remains defiant in Kyiv
- Peace talks continue after Russian issued three demands in an ultimatum - which were rejected by Ukraine
- Vladimir Putin has lost yet another general as his troops are reported to have been deserting from the invasion force
- Pictures show abandoned 'Z' tanks and burning Russian trucks as the Russia's costly, grinding advance continues
- Civilians are facing a perilous journey to escape Ukraine - including one boy, 11, who travelled 750 miles on his own
- Brit ex-soldiers are heading to the frontline as they vow to help fight back against Russia
"Which shot at our cities, our people. Which bombed our land. Which launched rockets. Which gave the order and pressed 'start'.
"There will be no quiet place on this Earth for you. Except for the grave."
It came hours before unconfirmed reports of air raids in the Sumy region - with at least one child said to have been wounded.
UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace this morning warned that Putin's forces are "getting more desperate" and "we are seeing the Russians just double down on brutality" as the war entered day 13.
He said the 40-mile column which has been for over a week lingering near Kyiv is "pretty much stuck, I mean really stuck".
And Mr Wallace insisted that Russia can still win the war against Russia if Ukrainians manage to "break" their army.
"It is getting more desperate, which is why we see huge amounts of indiscriminate shelling," he said.
"Russia has built itself a trap. The people of Ukraine, if they carry on doing what they're doing, can wear down the Russian armed forces to an extent of either stalemate or victory.
"It's perfectly possible Ukrainians can do that if they're equipped well enough."
Peace talks continue to grind forward, with Ukrainian negotiating team saying there were small positives - but they had rejected Putin's ultimatums.
Unrepentant despot Putin issued a list of three key demands on Ukraine to end the war.
The Kremlin called for Ukraine to cease military action, change its constitution to become a neutral country, acknowledge Crimea as Russian territory and recognise the separatist republics of Luhansk and Donetsk.
Dmitry Peskov said that Russia had told Ukraine it was ready to halt its military action "in a moment" if Kyiv met its conditions.
And he insisted his country wasn't seeking any further territorial claims in Ukraine, after laying waste to cities across Ukraine and killing hundreds.
Last month, Mr Zelenskyy dismissed Russia's territorial claims in an address to his people ahead of the invasion on February 24.
Russia's demands come despite Putin's army losing a key city in the war.
The north-eastern city of Chuhuiv was retaken on Sunday after Ukraine's military inflicted heavy losses on Russia's army, defence officials claimed.
Lieutenant General Serhiy Shaptala said his troops had seized Chuhuiv from Russian control, killing large numbers of Putin's men.
Two high-ranking Russian commanders were reportedly killed in the battle.
"In the course of hostilities, the city of Chuhuiv was liberated," the General Staff said on Facebook.
"The occupiers suffered heavy losses in personnel and equipment.
"Lieutenant Colonel Dmitry Safronov, Commander of the 61st Seperate Marine Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces, and Lieutenant Colonel Denis Glebov, Deputy Commander of the 11th Separate Airborne Assault Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces, were killed," it went on.
Chuhuiv, a small city of 30,000 people 22 miles southeast of Ukraine's second city Kharkiv, was one of the first taken by the Russians.
A week ago, a young boy was killed in the city after heavy shelling struck an apartment block.
The image of a woman with a heavily-bandaged and bleeding face following the shelling in Chuhuiv became one of the defining images of the conflict so far.
A total of 406 Ukrainian civilians including 27 children have died since the conflict began, the UN Human Rights Agency has said.
It added that 801 injuries have been reported as well, although the true figure could be far higher.
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Kyiv and Kharkiv came under fresh bombardment overnight as murderous Vladimir Putin hammered residential homes ahead of a feared second-wave offensive.
Missiles rained down after a day of true horror, which saw Russian troops fire on a nuclear reactor site and a mum and her two children killed as they desperately tried to flee during a ceasefire.
Air-raid sirens rang out in the capital Kyiv in the early hours, while social media videos showed a number of explosions in second city Kharkiv.
One terrifying video, believed to have been filmed in Kharkiv, shows the moment a high-rise block of flats was blasted in a huge orange flash.
Another clip records the constant rumble of bombing in the distance.
And a third was claimed to show a Russian attack jet going down in flames.
Presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovich said other areas under bombardment overnight included the outskirts of Kyiv, Chernihiv in the north, and Mykolaiv in the south
The new raids came hours after National Security Secretary Alexei Danilov warned to the nation expect a fresh onslaught.
"We have withstood the first, heaviest wave of attacks by Russian orcs.
"But the enemy is still dangerous as ready and united as possible."
Thousands of people are trapped in besieged Kharkiv, which has seen some of the heaviest bombings of the invasion so far.
Throughout the city, snowy streets are paved with glass blown from windows and debris torn from smashed buildings by missiles.
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Earlier yesterday, Russian forces were accused of firing at a facility with a nuclear reactor, sparking fears of a major radiation leak.
Mad Vlad's army are said to have fired unguided rockets at the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology.
Early this morning Russia's Ministry of Defence claimed without evidence that Ukraine's spy agency had mined the institute with explosives.
It added Ukraine was planning a dangerous "provocation" and hoped to blame Russia for an explosion causing "an ecological catastrophe".
The alarming statement raised fears Vladimir Putin was himself planning such horror in order to justify his slaughter of innocents.
Meanwhile, officials in Kyiv warned Russia had now amassed a big enough force to try to seize the capital.
And around 30 Tochka-U tactical missile systems have been brought to Belarus from Russia ready for a feared all-out assault.
Russia has fired 600 missiles and deployed 95 per cent of the servicemen who had gathered on the border ahead of the conflict, CNN reports.
Vadym Denysenko, an adviser to the interior minister, said: "Russian occupiers gathered sufficient troops near Kyiv and will try to seize the capital in the next few days."
Tens of thousands remain trapped in the besieged port city of Mariupol after a "ceasefire" to allow a humanitarian escape route was breached for the second day running.
Desperate residents were struggling for a fifth day with no water or power after an evacuation was halted by Russian shelling.
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Vadym Boychenko, mayor of the Black Sea port, said: "They’re destroying us.”
The UK's Ministry of Defence confirmed that Putin's forces had promised to let people escape - but once again Russian shelling resumed before refugees could leave.
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