Civilians face daily threat as Russia steps up offensive

In Ukraine, air raid sirens have gone from around the country

It seems nowhere is that the case more than in the city of Kharkiv. Terrifying footage, filmed by the Sun newspaper’s defence editor Jerome Starkey, shows a team of paramedics coming under attack from above. A man in red shields a wounded woman on the floor, while others flee in panic past him, Qazet.az reports.

Fires are said to be raging throughout the city and also five people reported killed.

But it’s not just Kharkiv where Russia is reportedly taking civilian lives. Zolote is a village right on the frontlines of the Donbas.

Even then it's astonishing to think that civilians were still living in an area that felt like a warzone. Now, with Russia’s main offensive gathering pace, it is simply incomprehensible that people are still there.