Horrifying Ukraine pics show cruel wrath of Russian strikes that killed 21 people

Heart-wrenching images captured the horrific aftermath of Russia’s missile and drone barrage on Kyiv early Monday that killed at least 21 civilians — as first responders dug for bodies in mountains of rubble for victims.Other chilling photos from the Ukrainian capital showed massive fires ripping through apartment buildings and petrified families scrambling to rescue children from the wreckage. One particularly haunting image shows a devastated mother clutching her young daughter to her chest while shielding her eyes in a debris-strewn street after one of Moscow’s missiles slammed into their family’s building. The onslaught over the last several days underscored Kyiv’s desperate need for American-made Patriot interceptors, one of the few anti-air weapons that can stop Russia’s ballistic missiles.Kyiv’s stores of Patriots are critically low, leaving Ukraine’s cites vulnerable, Ukraine said.Emergency crews were seen combing through the rubble, collapsed concrete and twisted metal, searching for survivors among buildings whose upper floors had been blown apart. “These are residential buildings.

Places where people slept and lived their ordinary lives,” Tymur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv’s City Military Administration, wrote on Telegram Monday. Chilling video appeared to show human remains trapped beneath slabs of concrete inside one demolished building, where rescuers had already pulled an entire family – two parents and their child – from the rubble on Monday, according to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha.The latest attack – which damaged roughly 30 buildings across Kyiv and left at least 56 people injured, according to Ukrainian authorities – came just days after another Russian strike killed 31 people in the capital, the deadliest attack on the city so far this year. The barrage also unfolded just hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that another large-scale attack was imminent – and on the eve of a NATO ...