Seconds to spare: Video shows man narrowly escaping Russian drone strike near Kyiv
Incredible CCTV footage shows a man escape a strike by a Russian droneby seconds.
The pedestrian is shown walking by a playground while checking his phone.
He stops to look up after appearing to hear the explosive device coming, before sprinting for cover.
Near miss: Man escapes the blast as drone detonates
Seconds later the drone impacts in a ball of fire where he had been standing.
The near miss comes after Ukraine claimed to have obtained Russian documents setting out a new strategy to hit civilian targets ahead of the winter.
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‘We saw documents, and we know that they allow them to attack infrastructure, logistics, and especially to attack in the cities, in the villages, everywhere, roads, schools, hospitals,’ Ukraine president VolodymrZelenskyy said.
Civilian targets: A medical worker helps a wounded resident (REUTERS)
‘To pressure people to leave the capital, leave different cities: this is the goal of the operation.’
A glide bomb attack on the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia killed at least 15 people including three children, officials said.
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