Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine has seen the Russian military subject the neighbouring state’s border cities to relentless shelling campaigns over the last three weeks, slowly but surely reducing the likes of Kharkiv and Mariupol to rubble.
Undeterred by near-unanimous international condemnation and draining economic sanctions, Mr Putin urges his forces on, with international observers accusing Russia of committing war crimes by deliberately going after civilian targets like residential apartment blocks and hospitals in order to cause panic, with even children’s nurseries, a Holocaust memorial and a theatre caught up in the siege warfare so far.
