Dashcam footage shows the moment missile debris crashed down on a street in Ukraine's capital, Kyiv.
The incident happened on 29 May and came during a rare daytime attack on the city. No injuries were reported.
The way the missile falls suggests it was intercepted by air defences before it could reach its target. The BBC matched the dashcam footage to video from a nearby security camera and photographs in media reports.
The fragments were later collected by police for further investigation.
Next this delusional fool will be comparing himself to Stalin followed by creating all the senseless deaths that Stalin visited on the Soviet Union thanks to his paranoia.
Russia threatens more attacks as the war in Ukraine appears close to a new turning point.
A pedestrian on Kyiv's Klitschko bridge had a narrow escape when a Russian missile hit the walkway.
Footage from surveillance cameras on the bridge shows the moment it was struck.
On Ukraine's Independence Day, locals living in Ukraine's capital Kyiv have been sharing their thoughts on the war after six months of conflict with Russia.
Normally, a massive military parade marches to the city's centre, but public events in the capital have been banned because of concerns they could become a target.
A Russian-Ukrainian family has been irrevocably split by the war in Ukraine after Russian-born Ekaterina Volkova was injured in an air strike and her Ukrainian husband killed in the same attack.
This was the second time Russia had dropped a missile on their apartment building. In late April, a Radio Liberty journalist was killed in the same building.
Ukrainian authorities said the incident showed Russia’s indiscriminate bombing was even targeting their own citizens.
BBC’S Olga Malchevska was live on air on the BBC World Service when she saw the first images of her childhood home in the aftermath of a Russian attack.
Olga’s home was the first one shelled by Russia near Kyiv on 25 February.
She’s now had a chance to return to see the extent of the damage left behind and the impact on her family and dozens others living in the large soviet-style residential bloc.
With the Russian offensive centred on eastern Ukraine, Kyiv is beginning to return to a sense of calm.
But the city’s defence force remains on high alert, dug into trenches in case of the return of Russian troops.
The BBC got rare access to the 131st battalion in the forests of the capital.
The Azov Special Operations Detachment (Ukrainian: Окремий загін спеціального призначення «Азов», romanized: Okremyi zahin spetsialnoho pryznachennia "Azov"), also known as the Azov Regiment (Ukrainian: Полк Азов, romanized: Polk Azov) or Azov Battalion (until September 2014), is a neo-Nazi[2][3][4][5] unit of the National Guard of Ukraine,[6][7][5] based in Mariupol, in the Azov Sea coastal region.[8] Azov formed as a volunteer paramilitary militia in May 2014,[9] and has since been fighting Russian separatist forces in the Donbas War. It first saw combat recapturing Mariupol from pro-Russian separatists in June 2014.[6] It initially operated as a volunteer police company, until it was formally incorporated into the National Guard on 11 November 2014.[10][11][12] In the wake of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the battalion gained renewed attention for its use by Russia in justifying the invasion and during the Siege of Mariupol for its role in the defense of the city.[13]
The battalion drew controversy over allegations of torture and war crimes, as well as neo-Nazi sympathies.[14] It has used controversial symbols,[15][16][17][18] including their logo, which resembles a Wolfsangel,[2] a pagan symbol[19] which was also used by some WW2 German Military units. Azov representatives deny links with neo-Nazism and state that the logo is an abbreviation of the slogan "National Idea" (Ukrainian: Ідея Нації, romanized: Ideya Natsiyi).[15] In March 2015, a battalion spokesman told USA Today that around 10–20% of the unit were Nazis.[20][21] A provision in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018, passed by the United States Congress, blocked military aid to Azov due to its white supremacist ideology; in 2015, a similar ban had been overturned by Congress.[2][3] Members of the battalion came from 22 countries and are of various backgrounds.[22][23] In 2017, the size of the regiment was estimated at more than 2,500 members,[24] but was estimated to be 900 members in 2022.[25]
In 2016, veterans of the regiment and members of the Azov Civil Corps, an Azov-affiliated non-governmental organization, founded the political party National Corps.[26] The party's first leader was Andriy Biletsky, who had previously been involved in the far right Social-National Assembly and founded the Patriot of Ukraine party.
