A video shows the moment one of two Russian guided bombs exploded through the roof of the DIY store in what appears to be a terrorist attack on civilians in eastern Ukraine.
Shocking CCTV footage shows the moment Russia n rockets strike a DIY hypermarket in Kharkiv in an attack that left at least 14 dead and many others wounded.
Serhiy Bolvinov, head of the regional police investigative department, said: 'It is clear that people were completely unprepared for such an attack, they were at work and minding their own business. Devastated people are being comforted by police as they grieve their loved ones who died in the attack
'Some workers died because they were evacuating people,' said the director of the construction hypermarket. Kharkiv Mayor Igor Terekhov said that according to the store's owner, they had lost contact with several store employeesA man watches as smoke rises from the hypermarket after being hit by a Russian air strike
It took emergency workers 16 hours to fully extinguish the fire at the hypermarket, which had raged over an area of 13,000 square metres Putin sees the city as a prize for invasion, and he again masses fresh troops attempting to push the frontline further into Ukrainian territory, despite losing tens of thousands in recent months in the Kharkiv direction.
A girl aged 12 was among the civilians who died as authorities have identified six of the 16 killed in the savage attack. Another 14 women and 30 men were injured.
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