AT least 20 people including a mum and her child in a pram have been killed in another barbaric Russian missile strike on a Ukrainian city.
Three long-range missiles blitzed an office block and homes and set at least 50 vehicles on fire as fresh horror erupted in broad daylight in Vinnytsia.
The deputy head of Ukraine's presidential office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, said at least three children were among the dead after a Russian submarine in the Black Sea fired on the city.
Horrific images from the blast site showed a smashed pushchair lying on the pavement after a mum and her toddler were both reportedly killed in the strike.
One man at the scene screamed amid the carnage and chaos: “Scumbags! This is the centre of Vinnytsia.
“Bloody hell… this was a child and there is the mother.”
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A little girl's body in a pink coat was also pulled from wreckage amid the carnage and more 90 people were wounded – 50 seriously.
A severed adult foot was pictured amid the debris nearby as sirens wailed and locals screamed in pain and fury after one of the deadliest strikes on a civilian target since Russia invaded.
The blanket-shrouded body of a middle-aged woman in a patterned dress was seen being stretchered out of the smoking ruin of the nine-storey office block.
Other footage at the scene with thick black smoke rising from the apex of the strike.
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Rescuers feared the death toll could rise as teams scoured the rubble for victims yet to be accounted for.
A senior regional emergency service official told Ukrainian television: "Unfortunately, there is probably no chance of finding anyone who survived under the rubble."
A maternity hospital was also hit by the blast wave from the strike, which hit the car park of the "Yuvelirniy" office block at 10.50am local time.
The broad daylight attack was on a city 170 miles south west of capital Kyiv – and hundreds of miles from frontline positions.
Vinnytsia is one of Ukraine's largest cities – with a population of 370,000 – and thousands of people from the east have fled there since the start of the war.
Other footage at the scene with thick black smoke rising from the apex of the strike.
The governor of the Vinnytsia region, Serhiy Borzov, said Ukrainian air defense systems shot down another four Russian missiles in the area.
Outraged Ukrainian fumed that the attack was yet another example of butcher Vladimir Putin's "terrorist" war crimes.
Ukrainian president Volodymr Zelensky raged: "There are wounded and dead, among them a small child – what is this, if not an open act of terrorism?
“Every day Russia is destroying civilians, killing Ukrainian children, and aiming missiles at civilian sites, where there is nothing linked to the military.
“They are not humans.”
Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba accused Russia of committing "another war crime".
He said: "We will put Russian war criminals on trial for every drop of Ukrainian blood and tears.”
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The outrage followed another last month which killed dozens of innocents when a Russian missile blasted a busy shopping centre in Kremenchuk, 290 miles east of Vinnytsia.
Kremlin officials denied targeting civilian areas after the attack.
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