Four dead as Putin smashes Ukraine with fresh strikes after Kyiv massacre

Vladimir Putin brushed aside the world's revulsion and carried on killing in Ukraine overnight. After the horror of strikes in Kyiv a day earlier - in which 23 died - his forces are keeping up their onslaught against border areas as he seeks to grab more territory. In new attacks carried out between Thursday and Friday night, two people were killed and nine wounded in Kherson.

In Dnipro, two were killed - a man and a woman - and three wounded in night Shahed drone strikes by Russian forces. In Zaporizhzhia, a one-year-old child and a man, 70, were injured in Russian strikes. This region suffered an appalling 553 strikes on 13 settlements as Putin seeks to break the will of Ukrainian residents.

As Ukraine continues to be pummelled by Russian strikes, Putin's territory was struck by Ukrainian drones targeting the city and region of Oryol, triggering fires.

This came as a new analysis claimed the number of Russian soldiers sent to their deaths during the war launched by Putin topped 200,000. The findings by Meduza and Mediazona are based on analysis of inheritance data.

The total number of casualties - including those wounded and permanently disabled - is believed to be well in excess of one million.

The latest strikes come as a picture emerged today of two-year-old Angelinka - the youngest victim of the Russian missile and drone slaughter targeted at civilians in Kyiv on Thursday. The toddler died with her mother Nadiya, 24.

"Unfortunately, the number of casualties in Kyiv has risen to 23 people," announced Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv City Military Administration. "My condolences to the families and loved ones."

At least four children were killed in the Russian strikes.

The grim search for more victims was still underway in Kyiv early today as the city marked a day of mourning for victims of Putin's wanton aggression.

In Kyiv, a large-scale fire was still raging for the second day following the attack on the Turkish Baykar plant, where drones and their components are produced.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said: "This strike clearly shows that Russia's goals have not changed. They want war - and they are striking not only our people, not only our cities and communities.

"Russia is now striking at everyone in the world who seeks peace. It is a strike against Ukraine.

"It is a strike against Europe. And it is also a strike by Russia against President Trump, and against other global actors.

"In Washington, we heard that Putin is supposedly ready to end the war - to meet at the leaders' level and resolve key issues.

"But instead, he chooses ballistics over any real steps toward peace.

"He kills children in order not to talk about when and how peace will come. The problem is that he is not afraid to strike even against the leaders he makes promises to.

"A clear response of the world to this evil is needed."

Donald Trump's envoy to Ukraine Keith Kellogg warned: "These egregious attacks threaten the peace that the US President is pursuing."

British Prime Minister Sir Keith Starmer accused Putin of seeking to sabotage efforts to end the war.

Trump's own response has been more muted but his hopes of an early Putin-Zelensky meeting to end the war now appeared in tatters.