Vladimir Putin's bloody revenge on Ukraine with burning bodies and cars on the streets of Kyiv

Russia has launched widespread attacks on seven cities in Ukraine, including the capital Kyiv, leaving at least 11 dead and 87 others injured by a legion of drones

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Russia launched its biggest blitz on Ukraine since the first invasion airstrikes began with more than 80 cruise missiles and 24 drones launched across the country.

Widespread attacks on seven cities, including Kyiv, left at least 11 dead and at least 87 injured, while parts of the capital were torched in a terrifying rush-hour salvo.

Among those killed in Kyiv was the head of the cyber police force, Colonel Yuri Zaskov, as the death toll in the attacks was expected to rise.

The US Embassy ordered all citizens to go to bunkers and then flee Ukraine as soon as the green light was given, but the Red Cross vowed to "stay in Ukraine ".

Explosions were reported in Lviv, Ternopil and Zhytomyr in western Ukraine, Dnipro and Kremenchuk in central Ukraine, Zaporizhzhia in the south and Kharkiv in the east.

A car burns in central Kyiv as a passerby runs for his life (

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Missiles continued to fall on Ukraine late into the afternoon, and swaths of the country were left without power as residents fled to bunkers throughout the day.

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Dozens of cruise missiles fired from the air, land and sea marked the largest wave of strikes targeting locations far from the frontline, at least since the February 24 invasion began.

Suspected Iranian-made explosive drones were also launched, of which 13 were shot down and more than 40 missiles were hit by Ukrainian surface-to-air defenses.

Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested in a televised address that it was a revenge attack for Kyiv to blow up its Kerch...