Ukraine War: Video shows Russian air strike on residential building in Zhytomyr

As Russian forces escalated their attacks on crowded urban areas of Ukraine on Tuesday, a video has come out of the aftermath of a Russian strike in the city of Zhytomyr.

According to reports, a Russian bomb hit a residential building near a hospital killing at least five people.

A video shared by Zhytomyr mayor showed firefighters battling searing flames after the air strike. Zhytomyr is 140 kilometres west of the Capital Kyiv.

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"There were several bombs. The building was destroyed. The hospital's doors and windows were all blown out," the mayor, Sergey Sukhomlyn said in a video statement.

Russia has been relentlessly bombarding Ukraine's main cities, including Capital Kyiv and Kharkiv.

Meanwhile, a 40-mile convoy of hundreds of Russian tanks and other vehicles has been advancing slowly on Kyiv, the capital city of nearly 3 million people.

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