RAINING DEATH
Horror moment Russia blows up Ukraine’s Palace of Culture with missile strike wounding 7 including child
RUSSIA blew up Ukraine's Palace of Culture in a massive missile strike from a supersonic bomber which wounded seven people - including an 11-year-old child.
Horror footage shows the building engulfed in flames after the missile struck, in what Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky called an act of “absolute evil”.
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Vladimir Putin's forces are believed to have launched the Kh-22 missile from a supersonic Tu-22M3 bomber in the Ukrainian city of Lozova.
Lozova is located roughly 45 miles, southwest of Izium, a Russian-occupied city in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine.
The missile was seen in the video in the milliseconds as it descended to earth before it destroyed the building.
In Telegram post accompanied by the video, Zelensky slammed the attack.
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“Russian missile strike on the newly renovated house of culture,” he said.
“The occupiers identified culture, education and humanity as their enemies. And they do not spare them missiles or bombs.
“What is in the minds of people who choose such targets? Absolute evil, absolute stupidity.”
Ukraine’s defence ministry accused the Russians of “deliberately terrorizing the civilian population” of the country.
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Other reports have suggested the hall was being used as an ammo dump by Ukrainian forces.
Throughout the war in Ukraine, the Russians have carried out missile attacks that have killed dozens of civilians.
In April, at least 50 people were killed and more than 100 injured after a Russian missile with "for the children" scrawled on the side blitzed a Ukrainian train station.
Horror pictures showed bodies strewn across the ground beside abandoned luggage at Kramatorsk railway station in eastern Ukraine amid reports the site has been blasted by Russian troops.
About 4,000 people, most of them elderly, women and children, were at the railway station when it was struck, Mayor Oleksander Honcharenko said.
Pictures showed a huge missile with Russian writing scrawled on the side that translates to 'the children'.
At the beginning of the war least ten people were killed and dozens injured in a Russian missile strike on the besieged city of Kharkiv.
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Footage showed the strike which turned the city's Freedom Square to rubble and devastated the nearby administration office.
Pictures show the aftermath as firefighters were left pulling bodies from inside the bombed out building.
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