Heartbreaking pics show gran's agony as Russian missile kills daughter and granddaughter

A grandmother has been left grief-stricken after Vladimir Putin's brutal forces killed both her daughter and 11-year-old granddaughter.

Russian forces began June with a fresh aerial bombardment of Ukraine's capital Kyiv on Thursday, killing at least three people and wounding others.

The grandmother was pictured distraught over the body of her daughter, next to a clinic that was damaged during the attack.

Her agonised screams and wails tore through the deathly silence in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv as medics held up her heartbroken body.

The Kyiv City Administration said the casualty toll was the most from one attack on Kyiv in the past month. The attack damaged apartment buildings, a medical clinic, a water pipeline and cars.

The attack reportedly involved 10 Iskander short-range missiles and residents barely had warning before hell was rained down.

The grandmother stands over her daughter's body after a Russian aerial attack on a children's hospital (Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

A distraught man interviewed on local television said his wife was one of the victims of Thursday’s attack.

He said she had run to a local shelter after an air raid siren went off but the shelter was closed and she was caught out in the open and struck by falling metal from an intercepted missile.

In the Desnianskyi district, debris fell on a children’s hospital and a nearby multi-storey building. Two schools and a police department were damaged.

The grief-struck grandmother is held up by medics in Kyiv after the bomb attack (Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

In another district, Dniprovskyi, a residential building was damaged by burning debris and heavy smoke arose, the blast wave blew out the windows, parked cars caught fire, and debris fell onto the roadway and courtyards.

In the Darnytskyi neighbourhood, a water pipeline and a residential building were affected, and the explosive wave broke windows.

"It is international children's day. At night, Russia again killed a child in Kyiv", said Andriy Yermak, chief of President Volodymyr Zelensky's office.

Police officers investigate a crater and debris outside a clinic that was damaged during a Russian missile attack (Getty Images)

After a woman was killed watching an aerial attack from her balcony earlier this week, Kyiv authorities urged residents to heed warning sirens and stay in shelters or other safe locations.

"You’ve got to be vigilant, as ballistic missiles fly at incredible speeds. From the moment the alarm is announced to the rocket’s arrival, you have only a few seconds!" they warned in a message to residents.