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VLADIMIR Putin has unleashed hell on a nursery in Ukraine with a barrage of terrifying drone strikes.
Dozens of crying children had to be saved from the blazing building after the attack which left with one person dead and seven injured.
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Heartbreaking footage captured dozens of fire officials rushing through the streets of Kharkiv with children in their arms.
All 48 children were evacuated from the nursery on Wednesday morning safely.
Many of the distressed little ones were heard crying and screaming in fear as they were carried away.
Officers found one adult man dead along with seven others who were injured in the blitz.
Devastating images from the city show the aftermath of the strikes inside the nursery.
The roof had caved in, whiteboards had been ripped from the wall and the windows shattered with splintered glass strewn across the room.
A few children’s desks can be seen still standing in among the piles of charred rubble.
From the outside of the building the damage was horrifying.
Billowing smoke could be seen coming from the roof with multiple gaping holes left in the building from the individual drones.
The once joyful and colourful artwork which adorned the outside walls to help attract the children in was now stained an ashy black.
An irate President Volodymyr Zelensky labelled the attack a “spit in the face” towards those looking to secure a peace deal to end the bloodshed.
He blamed the strikes on “bandits and terrorists” being ruled over by Putin’s iron fist.
Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said in a statement: “There was a direct hit on a private kindergarten in the Kholodnoyarkiy district of Kharkiv.
“A fire started.”
Wartime leader Zelensky took to social media to confirm the horror flurry of drone strikes on the nursery.
He said all the children are now safe in shelters with many reporting symptoms of “acute stress”.
Zelensky said: “There is and cannot be any justification for a drone strike on a kindergarten. Russia is becoming more impudent.
“These strikes are Russia’s spit in the face of anyone who insists on a peaceful solution.”
Zelensky made the comments after a turbulent 24 hours for the latest peace negotiations.
Donald Trump was due to hold crunch talks with Russia’s tyrant Putin in Hungary in the coming weeks.
But they sensationally collapsed on Tuesday over Moscow’s refusal to accept fair terms for a ceasefire in Ukraine.
Trump hit out at Putin saying a meeting with him would be a “waste of time” as he isn’t serious about wanting to stop the war.
It came just hours after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio also called off a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
The US have been trying to secure a deal to finally end the bloodshed in Europe for months now.
Trump's divisive peace plan
AS Trump battles to end another key global conflict, he is facing perhaps his toughest task to date – Vladimir Putin.
The pair met for historic peace talks in Alaska on August 15, where the plan in Trump’s eyes was to get Vlad to the negotiating table.
Things didn’t go quite to plan as the pair shared a jovial few hours in each other’s company.
Little geopolitical work was undertaken regarding ending the war as Putin left to go back to Moscow and launch more deadly attacks on Ukraine.
His strikes have only ramped up in the two months since he met with Trump.
Now, all eyes are back on Ukraine following Trump’s Gaza peace declaration.
The US president hosted Volodymyr Zelensky in Washington last week as Kyiv pleaded with the US to send them Tomahawk missiles to be used against Russia.
Trump declined to agree to the deal and even erupted by shouting and swearing at Zelensky as he told him to accept Putin’s terms, sources told the Financial Times.
A defiant Zelensky managed to get the US leader back on side as Trump put forward a new peace plan.
On Sunday, he suggested freezing the frontline and drawing new borders along it – which would mean Ukraine handing vast swathes to Russia.
This would give Putin almost full control of the Donbas – which he has demanded as a condition for ending the war – but for a small stronghold still under Ukrainian control in the Donetsk oblast.
Russia has so far failed to capture Ukraine’s sturdy “fortress belt” – but is adamant that any peace settlement will see it handed over.
But even this deal wasn’t good enough for the Kremlin.
Trump’s latest attempt to get a ceasefire signed off by both Moscow and Kyiv was to suggest the key battlegrounds could be divided up based on the current frontlines.
Ukraine is said to be open to discussions around a possible freezing of war zones if it can be given security guarantees in return.
But an ever-greedy Kremlin is refusing to accept any such trade-off.
Instead, Russia wants Ukraine to cede territory in the Donetsk region, allowing Putin to control more land than he has stolen.
Moscow also wants Kyiv to demilitarise in a way which leaves them vulnerable to any future strikes.
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