'Russia is targeting ordinary people...it acts like a terrorist'

CLEAR blue sky is visible through the gaping hole left in a block of flats by a deadly Russian guided bomb in Ukraine's second city, Kharkiv.

- Hanna Geissler

Five of the nine stories have been obliterated and thick dust fills the air as emergency workers search for victims and send cascades of rubble crashing to the ground.

A wave of terrifying daylight strikes hit four districts in the city on Tuesday. Authorities soon reported that at least three people were killed and 36 had been taken to hospital.

But the unrecognisable remains of a fourth dead victim were being photographed by recovery workers as the Daily Express arrived at the scene in the Šaltivka district on Wednesday.