A UKRAINIAN dad’s life was shattered today after his entire family was wiped out in a bloody Russian hypersonic missile blitz.
Bloodied Yaroslav Bazylevych stumbled through the rubble as he followed the bodies of his wife and three young daughters while they were carried out of their devastated home in the western city of Lviv.
ReutersA bloodied Yaroslav Bazylevych is comforted after his entire family were killed in a Russian strike on Lviv[/caption]
ReutersHeartbreaking pictures show a dazed and bloodied Yaroslav being held up by medics as he followed his daughter’s body on a stretcher[/caption]
Yaroslav is the sole survivor of his family – his wife Evgenia, 43, (left) and three daughters – Emilia, seven, (centre front) Daryna, 18, (right) and Yaryna, 21, (back left) were all killed in the missile strike
Vehicles parked along the city’s roads were burned to the groundReuters
They are among the 7 people killed in Vladimir Putin‘s latest bombardment on Ukraine – a day after 51 people were killed at a military institute in the central city of Poltova.
The mayor of Lviv revealed Yaroslav had tragically lost his wife Evgenia, 43, and three daughters – Emilia, seven, Daryna, 18, and Yaryna, 21, – as one of the missiles struck their apartment building.
Heartbreaking pictures show a dazed and bloodied Yaroslav being held up by medics as he followed his daughter’s body on a stretcher.
Sharing a picture of the young family on a sunny day, Lviv mayor Andriy Sadovy said: “After today’s attack, only the man in this photo remains alive.
“Yevgenia’s wife and their daughters – Yaryna, Darina and Emilia – died in their home.”
Sadovy said Yaryna had been working in their office on a youth project, adding: “In the centre of Europe, Russia exterminates whole families of Ukrainians.
“Russians are killing our children, our future. I don’t know what words to support Yaroslav.”
Putin launched a savage hypersonic missile blitz in the early hours of this morning against Lviv – located just 30 miles from Nato member Poland’s border.
Harrowing video from the scene showed rescuers desperately scouring the rubble of a destroyed apartment building for survivors.
Tragically, they found seven bodies underneath the rubble – among them Yaroslav’s wife and three daughters and three adults in their 50s.
One woman was seen pleading with medics for information about her injured daughter and granddaughters after 30 were wounded in the strike.
The first powerful explosions were reported at 5am this morning – when Yaroslav’s family and the rest of their street were asleep.
The blitz shattered windows and set buildings on fire, sparking a huge emergency response and rescuers scoured the rubble for survivors.
President Volodymyr Zelensky slammed Russia’s latest strike on civilian areas as “Russian terrorist strikes on Ukrainian cities”.
Zeelsnky repeated his pleas for his Western allies to help with Ukraine’s air defences and allow them to use long-range strikes into Russia to stem the barrage of attacks on civilian areas.
The frustrated leader said: “Everyone who persuades partners to give Ukraine more long-range capability to respond to terror fairly is working to prevent exactly these kinds of Russian terrorist strikes on Ukrainian cities.”
Neighbouring Poland scrambled aircraft on Wednesday for the third time in eight days to maintain the safety of its airspace, the armed forces’ operational command said.
Residents in Lviv have been waking up to their town completely ravaged by Putin’s overnight strikes.
One woman told Sky News how she was forced to leave the shelter she was hiding in because “everything was on fire”.
Today’s strike comes less than 24 hours after the war’s deadliest single attack this year, with 51 people killed and 271 injured after Russia blitzed a military institute and hospital in Poltava.
Rescuers were met with a scene of horror with body parts strewn across the parade ground and bloodied survivors screaming under the smouldering debris.
Ukrainian officials were left scrambling after the back-to-back incoming strikes left no time to alert and save civilians.
Russia has been pounding Ukraine with hundreds of missiles and drones in the past 10 days, in what analysts say is Putin’s response to Kyiv’s recent incursion into its territory.
ReutersThe devastated families of Lviv as Putin’s Russia carries on with heartless attacks in its brutal war against Ukraine[/caption]
ReutersThe aftermath of Wednesday’s attacks on Ukraine[/caption]
X / @zahidwtfSocial media footage showed the moment the blasts hit Lviv[/caption]
ReutersRussia has launched a fresh missile attack on Ukraine[/caption]