Videos shared on the Telegram app by Russian military bloggers appeared to show the Russian tricolour flying atop a damaged building in the town that once was home to 30,000 Ukrainians
Video footage and photographs posted on social media showed the top of the tower snapping off and grey smoke billowing from the structure moments after the strike.
A defeat for Ukraine would usher in a new era of fear in the whole Euro-Atlantic area, as Putin continues his drive to rebuild the Soviet empire, writes Boris Johnson.
It's believed that Russia has rebuilt its military to near full strength.
The Kremlin has long presented its offensive on Ukraine as a 'special military operation', banning domestic media outlets from using the word 'war' and prosecuting anti-offensive campaigners
Dramatic footage shows the Dnipro Hydroelectric Power Plant - Ukraine's largest - erupting in flames following a strike there which also hit a bus, causing several civilian casualties
There was an apparent attempt to cover up the acutely embarrassing blunder by Vladimir Putin 's Baltic Fleet with initial reports saying there was an unexplained 'explosion and fire' on the trawler.
Dramatic footage shows the Dnipro Hydroelectric Power Plant - Ukraine's largest - erupting in flames following a strike there which also hit a bus, causing several civilian casualties
Dramatic footage shows the Dnipro Hydroelectric Power Plant - Ukraine's largest - erupting in flames following a strike there which also hit a bus, causing several civilian casualties
A Russian drone crashed into a residential building in Odesa on Saturday night, with pictures showing collapsed floors and the whole of one side ripped off the nine-storey block of flats.
A Kharkiv ambulance, pocked with bullet holes and missing its front windshield, was driven across central London last week to demonstrate the 'real-life consequences of Russia's attacks'.
Olga Putyatina, 35, died clutching her baby son Pavlo after Putin's forces hit an oil depot, unleashing a 'hellish lava' of burning fuel that ran down a street, consuming more than a dozen houses.
Among the victims were a family of five including three children aged six-months, four and seven, who were reportedly 'burned alive' inside their own home.
The deep threat of the war dragging in NATO was highlighted by the Polish alert early today as Russian missiles appeared to be over-shooting Ukraine and heading towards Poland.
Tetiana Martynova, from Kharkiv , died in a collision on the A4067 Neath Road, in the Morriston area of Swansea.
Dramatic video shows an out-of-control Ilyushin Il-76 plunging from the sky and smashing into the ground in front of horrified locals in the Belgorod region near Ukraine's border.
One elderly woman was seen in an ambulance, her face a crimson mask. She wore nothing more than heavy bandaging for her wounds, a beige coat spattered with blood and snow-covered slippers
CNN's Fred Pleitgen explains how Ukraine's military supplies are dwindling, as Russia launches more attacks in Odesa and Kharkiv.
Russia launches missile attacks across Ukraine, leaving nearly two dozen people injured in Kharkiv and Odesa as CNN's Fred Pleitgen reports from Dnipro.
MailOnline spoke with the CEOs and founders of some of these startups to learn how they have been using technology to fight the war for Ukrainian culture.
Medical Life Lines Ukraine have said they want to show Ukrainian civilians that 'they're not alone' as they prepare to send four more ambulances of aid, having already sent 48 so far.
