THIS is the horror moment Putin's deadly kill squad opens fire on a high-rise building in Mariupol.
Propaganda footage shows a group of heavily armed Chechen fighters blast the building appearing to be in a fierce standoff.
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The Chechen fighters were seen shooting at a high rise building in Mariupol 6
Smoke can be seen billowing from the tower block before the fighters bizarrely rescue civilians
The clip, said to have been released by pro-Putin Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov, begins by showing the fighters gathered in a Mariupol alleyway against a backdrop of patriotic music.
It goes on to show the hit men pounding a building the bombed out city from behind a tank, before bizarrely cutting to soldiers appearing to rescue women and children.
It comes after Putin's troops bombed a theatre in Mariupol said to be sheltering up to 1,200 terrified people - despite the word "children" being written outside the building.
The city's deputy mayor, Serhiy Orlov, said between 1,000 and 1,200 people were inside the theatre on Wednesday when it was targeted by the Russians.
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Satellite images from two days ago showed the word "children" written in large white letters in Russian outside the front and back of the building, the Maxar space technology company said.
It's now feared hundreds of starving Ukranian families are still trapped under the blitzed ruins.
Serhiy Taruta, a Ukrainian MP originally from Mariupol, said: “No one understands.
"Services that are supposed to help are demolished, rescue and utility services… are physically destroyed.”
He added that without swift rescue this would mean that “all the survivors of the bombing will either die under the ruins of the theatre, or have already died”.
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Mariupol has been under fire for more than two weeks and entire neighbourhoods have been turned into wasteland.
Shocking drone footage showed the utter devastation in the besieged city where thousands of people have died and 250,000 remain trapped without power or water.
Huge plumes of black smoke darkened the skies as dozens of vast apartment blocks were ablaze.
One local said: “Mariupol is now just hell.”
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Others reported seeing 22 aircraft dropping 100 bombs in just one day.
The Red Cross has said the city is in the middle of a "waking nightmare".
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Satellite images showed the word 'children' written in large white letters outside the theatre Credit: Reuters 6
The Mariupol Drama Theatre was bombed by the Russians Credit: Twitter 6
The number of casualties is not yet known Credit: Twitter 6
Much of the theatre was destroyed by the Russian airstrike Credit: AP