Distressing footage shows a Ukrainian family weeping over the body of their two-year-old child today (March 18) during a funeral for the infant who was killed by a Russian attack on the village of Novi Petrivtsi to the north of Kyiv.

Four others were wounded in the assault.

Exclusive footage showed the funeral of the child and the aftermath of the deadly attack including the remains of a Russian missile.

Police said Russian forces fired heavy artillery at residential houses in the Vyshhorod district.

An apartment building was destroyed and neighbouring residential buildings were damaged in the assault, according to reports.

As a result of the shelling of Novye Petrovtsy near Vyshgorod, a two-year-old child was killed, four more people were injured.

This was announced by the head of the Main Directorate of the National Police in the Kiev region Andriy Nebitov. We got to private houses, to the store. And social infrastructure facilities