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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Nicholas Cecil

Revealed: how Vladimir Putin’s troops indiscriminately targeted homes on failed Kyiv advance

Vladimir Putin’s forces stood accused on Tuesday of slaughtering innocent civilians in Ukraine as a British intelligence analysis showed 80 per cent of damage to buildings in an advance on Kyiv were on homes.

The findings in the study of 3,500 buildings shred the Kremlin’s claim that civilian areas are not being targeted by Mr Putin’s troops in his invasion which is feared to have killed tens of thousands of civilians, including in war crimes executions.

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