Five people have died after Russia attacked a TV tower in Kyiv, hitting nearby broadcast facilities, Ukrainian officials say
The second Russian missile reportedly missed the TV tower and hit the area of the Holocaust memorial.
Boris Johnson has this morning condemned President Putin with his strongest remarks yet.
“Vladimir Putin is prepared to use barbaric and indiscriminate tactics against innocent civilians, to bomb tower blocks, to send missiles into tower blocks to kill children”
Standing alongside the Polish PM Morawiecki he added:
”I’m afraid to say the tragedy we predicted has come to pass…we are seeing an unfolding disaster & once again our Polish friends are on the front line…we stand ready to take Ukrainian refugees in our own country in considerable numbers”
The Prince of Wales has said the values of democracy are under attack in Ukraine in the “most unconscionable way”, adding “we are in solidarity with all those who are resisting brutal aggression”
Ukraine’s foreign minister has accused President Vladimir Putin of committing more war crimes following “barbaric Russian missile strikes” against the country’s second city of Kharkiv
Posting a video on twitter Dymtro Kuleba said:
“Barbaric Russian missile strikes on the central Freedom Square and residential districts of Kharkiv. Putin is unable to break Ukraine down. He commits more war crimes out of fury, murders innocent civilians. The world can and must do more.”
There are also allegations that Putin has used cluster bombs and thermobaric weapons in Ukraine.
Amnesty and Human Rights Watch both said that Russia appeared to have used cluster munitions.
Ukraine’s ambassador to the U.S. Oksana Markarova claimed Russia had used a “vacuum bomb” or thermobaric bomb on Monday
Meanwhile satellite images show that a Russian military convoy approaching the outskirts of the capital is much longer than previously thought, at 40 miles long.
Earlier on Monday it had been measured at 17 miles long. Maxar said the convoy consisted of hundreds of armored vehicles, tanks, towed artillery and other vehicles.
Air raid sirens have been sounding this morning in the western cities of Ternopil, Vinnytsia, Rivne, as well as the central cities of Cherkasy and Kropyvnytskyi.
Russian troops have also reportedly begun a ground assault on the southern city of Kherson.
Britain and the West have ruled out a no-fly zone over Ukraine, deputy prime minister Dominic Raab told the BBC this morning. “We will not get involved directly in military operations against Russian forces. We have considered a no fly zone, but the international community has ruled it out.”
President Putin is “violating human rights on an industrial scale” and must be shunned by the international community, Liz Truss will tell the UN in Geneva today.
