Before and after: The devastating impact of Russian missile strikes

As Russian forces advance deeper into Ukraine and are said to have several major cities surrounded, the scars of conflict are marked on buildings that have been hit by bombs.

Russia said it would be targeting governmental sites. Below is the regional administration building in central Kharkiv, a city of 1.4 million people in northeast Ukraine, which officials said was damaged by a missile.

Use the slider to see how the different sites looked before and after being attacked.

Here it is from another side, overlooking the city’s Freedom Square.

Another building is damaged in Kharkiv after being attacked in the area near the national university.

An explosion at Kyiv’s television tower in which five people are said to have died was captured in this image, a contrast to how the road would have looked only a week ago.

Smoke rises from another building – believed to be Kyiv’s television centre – after an explosion.

A destroyed Ukrainian armoured personnel carrier blocks the road in front of a school in Kharkiv that, according to local residents, was on fire after shelling.

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