'It's politics and terror' Dnipro feels heat of Russian air attacks

At 5pm on 28 June, Lana Yefimova left work as usual, walking from her office in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. Minutes later a Russian rocket hit the nine-storey block of flats opposite her workplace and crashed through the upper floors, ripping through ceilings.

- Luke Harding

"I ran back to find a fire. It was huge," Yefimova said.

The attack killed four people and was seemingly random - another erratic death-bringing moment in Russia's bloody war. "They want to frighten us so we leave," Yefimova said. "It's politics. And terror."

When rescue workers eventually extinguished the blaze left by the attack it revealed a gaping and jagged V-shape where people had lived. "We were somehow lucky.

There should have been dozens of victims," said Dnipro's mayor, Borys Filatov. "The Russians shoot without any purpose. For them, everything is a target."

Ukraine hopes the arrival of F-16 fighter jets - announced by Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Sunday will enable it to better protect itself from Russian bombardment.