Hideous scenes have erupted across Ukraine - in the south-eastern port city of Mariupol, the situation has been described as “catastrophic”.
The besieged city’s plight is far from isolated. Reports of dead civilians have poured out of Ukraine; Hospitals bombed, pregnant women and their unborn children murdered by indiscriminate shelling.
Reports of the use of thermobaric vacuum weapons - which douse an area with explosive fuel that infiltrates anything not entirely sealed, before detonating the cloud in a huge fireball that sucks up all the oxygen in the area - have emerged from the war zone.
