[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Vladimir Putin's attack on the British Council building in Kyiv is a 'clear message of hostility', foreign affairs experts have warned.
Russia was just hours away from killing UK workers with a double-tap rocket strike on a British Council building and the European headquarters in Kyiv.
The two buildings were struck overnight as Russia unleashed a barrage of drones and hypersonic missiles on the Ukrainian capital leaving at least 19 dead including four children, the youngest of whom was just two.
Dramatic footage shows a missile exploding in a fireball explosion at around 5.40am before a second followed 20 seconds later leaving the building 'severely damaged'.
Former Tory MP Bob Seely, a foreign affairs expert, told the Daily Mail: ‘The attack on the British Council building was a deliberate and considered strike to send a clear message of hostility from Putin’s regime.
‘The question now is whether he will continue to strike UK targets inside and outside Ukraine.’
The British Council site, which offers educational courses and English language programmes, is run independently but receives sponsorship from the Foreign Office.
British nationals are recruited from the UK to teach at the centre, and many would likely have been inside had the strike occurred just a few hours later, after it opened at 9am.
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