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At least three people were killed when the mortar fire came raining down while men, women and children attempted to flee from Irpin near Kyiv.
Dozens of people were left running for their lives in the assault on the city which has already come under heavy bombardment from Russia.
And this latest attack on civilians comes as Russia again broke a ceasefire agreement for the second time in two days in Mariupol.
Putin’s forces had promised to let people escape – but once again Russian shelling resumed before refugees could leave.
And in some of the most harrowing images of the conflict so far, a whole family were hit as a shell fell in the middle of the evacuee route in Irpin…
