Putin kills more civilians in Ukraine with wave of savage strikes as nine die when suicide drone hit a bus

VLADIMIR Putin has unleashed more deadly strikes on civilians in Ukraine — killing nine when a kamikaze drone hit a bus.

The lethal attack in Marhanets, in the Dnipropetrovsk region, injured another 30 people.

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Further drone strikes triggered numerous fires and hit civilian infrastructure in the strategically vital Black Sea port of Odesa.

Another blitz injured six in central city Poltava, while Iranian-designed drones set off fires around the country’s second largest city, Kharkiv.

The Zaporizhzhia region was again targeted — a day after a strike on a civilian factory injured 38.

But Kyiv hit back yesterday by striking a key ammunition depot deep inside Russia.

It triggered a vast explosion and fireball, followed by a giant mushroom cloud.

It appears the hit breached munitions storage bunkers at one of the Kremlin’s largest stores.

Residents were said to be evacuating the area, which is just 80 miles or so from Moscow.

A Ukrainian report said: “One hundred thousand tons of ammunition flew into the air.

“This was a store for aerial bombs, artillery shells, missiles for multiple launch rocket systems, air defence components.”