RUSSIAN forces bombed a care home for disabled people in the latest horrific attack on civilians by Vladimir Putin.

The care home in eastern Ukraine was hit by Russian air strikes while there were 330 people inside at the time.

The second and third floors of the building were damaged and it was left without heating, electricity or water access.

However, thankfully no one was killed in the bombing and a number of people have since been evacuated from the facility near Kharkiv.

Regional official Oleg Sinegubov wrote on Telegram: "The enemy today hit a specialised establishment for disabled people near Oskil.

There were 330 people in the building at the time of the attack, he said, including 10 who required wheelchairs and 50 with reduced mobility.

He added that 63 had since been evacuated, without giving details on the others.

"Luckily, there are no victims," the emergency services said.

"There is no more heating, electricity and water access," Yuriy Shparaga, regional social affairs official, wrote on Facebook.

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"The Russians have again carried out a brutal attack against civilians," said Sinegubov. "It is a war crime against civilians."

The attack comes two days after Russian strikes hit a children's and maternity hospital in the southern port city of Mariupol, leaving three dead including a child.

Harrowing pictures of a lone mum stood in the rubble have become one of the most recognisable images of the war so far since Putin invaded at the end of February.

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The hospital was "operational", a UN High Commission for Human Rights spokesman said Friday.

They rejected the claim by Moscow that the hospital was a staging area for Ukrainian nationalists.

The UN has counted 26 attacks on Ukrainian health centres since the start of the Russian invasion, leaving 12 dead and 34 injured.

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And as the Kremlin desperately tries to desperately to pretend it is not slaughtering civilians, it outrageous claimed the woman pictured in Mariupol was a "crisis actor" waring make up.

The pregnant mum was bombarded by trolls mobilised against her by the Russian state who accused her of being part of an elaborate fake.

She has now given birth and is reported to be doing well along with her new baby girl – but they remain trapped in Mariupol.

It comes as:

• Russian forces are massing near Kyiv as Ukraine is fortifying the capital for a long bloody siege
• Kremlin diplomats accused a pregnant woman of FAKING her injuries after Putin's forces bombed a hospital
• Roman Abramovich has been sanctioned – and its feared Chelsea could fold if he doesn't sell the club in 81 DAYS
• Russia has been accused of nuclear terrorism after bombing a reactor in Kharkiv
• Britain has warned that Russia could use chemical weapons as the invasion continues
• Incredible video shows a Russian armoured column being blitzed as it advances towards Kyiv
• Sanctions continue to bite – and one Russian was seen stocking up with dozens of McDonald's burgers as the company withdrew

Ukraine has said Russian attacks have now killed more civilians than soldiers – with thousands believed to have been murdered.

Putin's invasion has been grinding forward in a slow and bloody advance – meeting a staunch and spirited resistance.

Russia is believed to have thought it could roll over Ukraine in a matter of days, but instead they have been pushed back

The country is now littered with the wreckage of Russian armoured vehicles and as many as 12,000 of Putin's men have been lost in Ukraine.

However, this frustration has changed Russia's tactics – leading to more indiscriminate bombing and medieval style siege warfare.

Peace talks continue – but its unclear how successful they will be after Russia issued a list of demands seen as impossible to meet for Kyiv.

Russia finds itself increasingly isolated on the world stage amid tough sanctions and global condemnation of Putin.

Elsewhere, satellite images show Russian tanks and other vehicles heading towards Kyiv, while other aerial footage appears to reveal military equipment being stationed outside the capital.

The images from Maxar, which has been monitoring the invasion since the start, were taken close to Antonov Airport, just miles from the city.

A large military convoy can be seen travelling along the main road.

Images appear to show the infamous 40-mile "death convoy" of Russian vehicles stalled near Kyiv for almost two weeks has now "dispersed", as rocket artillery is moved into firing positions for an assault on the city.

Kyiv is believed to remain the number one objective for Russia – as Putin wants to depose the government of Volodymyr Zelensky and install a pro-Moscow puppet regime.

And today, the UK Defence Ministry has claimed Russia is likely to want to resume its offensive in Kyiv in the coming days.

The huge column was first seen on February 28 after grinding to a halt on the main highway leading south to the capital, after being hit by breakdowns, fuel shortages, and supply problems.

It originally set off from Belarus and has been making its way south towards Kyiv, via Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

However, forces have since been bogged down amid reports of food, fuel, and equipment shortages.

But fresh satellite images taken on Thursday after a break in cloud cover show commanders on the move again, breaking up the column which had become vulnerable to counterattacks.

Rocket artillery and supply trucks were pictured taking up firing positions in fields outside Berestyanka, a small town 30 miles north of Kyiv, their tyre tracks visible in the countryside.

While not far away in Lubyanka, vehicles were seen parked in forests as part of a possible camouflage attempt.

An estimated 15,000 troops along with fuel tankers and ammunition trucks are believed to be in the convoy.

It comes as Kyiv's mayor, former world heavyweight boxing champion Vitali Klitschko, said that his city "has been turned into a fortress" ahead of another feared Russian onslaught.

Around 2 million people, more than half of the city's residents, are now believed to have evacuated.

Russian forces attacked from the west and east late on Wednesday and early on Thursday, as the encirclement of Kyiv appears to be underway.

But a defiant Mayor Klitschko warned the Russians would not find their assault on the capital straightforward.

"Every street, every house is being fortified, the territorial defence is joining," he said in a televised interview on Thursday.

"Even people who in their lives never intended to change their clothes, now they are in uniform with machine guns in their hands."

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