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Hollie Bone

Russia Ukraine news: Terrifying moment missile blasts into residential building in Kyiv

This is the devastating moment a missile can be seen flying into the side of a residential building in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Blue skies can be seen shining down on the city before the missile crashes into the high rise flats, destroying one side and leaving smoke billowing around them.

The spine chilling clip emerged with other videos and pictures on social media, prompting many to question whether it had been evacuated yet - the Mirror UK reports.

The building appears to have over 22 storeys in central Kyiv but its exact location is not clear.

Vladimir Putin launched his full scale Russian invasion on Ukraine on Thursday, Feb 24, first seizing the Chernobyl exclusion zone.

Paratroopers were deployed to guard the nuclear power plant which left devastated the town of Pripyat with a nuclear explosion in 1986.

On Friday Ukraine raised fears about 'excess' levels of radiation, suggesting that Russian troops moving in had disturbed the top soil and were kicking up radioactive dusts, but the Kremlin denied this.

Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelensky has remained adamant that those able to should stay in Ukraine and fight, as he handed out weapons to the public to stop Putin's men.

The Russian invasion declared its intentions to take Kyiv as it began to surround the capital on three sides, targeting key airfields and ports along the way.

(AFP via Getty Images)

President Zelensky claimed that he was "target number one" with his family named as "target number two" adding that Ukrainian intelligence suggested Putin's plan was to execute him in a bid to topple the Ukrainian political system.

But the Ukrainian leader said he would remain in Kyiv, despite alleged offers by US president to give him a safe "route out" of the country, Sky News reported.

Instead, Zelensky has posed in videos with his political team showing them remaining on the streets of the capital as he ordered all men aged 18-60 to stay and fight the enemy.

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