Thursday 30 June 2022 12:24 AM Putin denies he blew up Ukrainian shopping centre - as video shows Russian hit ... trends now
Russian President Vladimir Putin has angrily denied his forces attack civilian infrastructure hours after video showed a Russian missile destroying a block of flats and killing at least three people.
Footage shows the missile hit the top of a residential building in the southern city of Mykolaiv on Wednesday with five wounded as well as the fatalities reported by Ukraine so far.
Local authorities have since launched a rescue effort for survivors while photos from the scene showed smoke billowing from the wreckage of the five-storey building.
Eight missiles struck targets in the southern river port just off the Black Sea, its mayor said on Wednesday, just days after Ukraine said Russian missiles killed at least 18 people at a shopping centre in the central town of Kremenchuk.
Putin has denied responsibility for the attack on the shopping centre and insisted his forces do not target civilians, instead accusing Ukraine of staging the bombings.
Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych said the residential building in Mykolaiv appeared to have been hit by a Russian X-55 cruise missile which left the block badly damaged.
Destruction: At least three people have been killed by a Russian missile strike on a block of homes in the southern city of Mykolaiv (pictured), Ukraine, local authorities have said
Photos from the scene show the five-storey building extensively damaged after the blast
Rescue workers launched an operation to comb the debris for survivors on Wednesday
Video from a neighbouring building shows a huge explosion at the top corner of the block followed by large flames as the camera is damaged and knocked out of position.
A second video released on social media by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine showed a dog being rescued from the damaged apartment building using a cradle crane.
According to the post on Facebook, the dog's owner was rescued by ladder, but the dog was trapped inside the apartment on the fourth floor of the building.
Rescuers used a cradle crane to
