Russia’s violent attack on Ukraine is splashed across the nation’s front pages today, many of them featuring images of children who have been killed during the war.
The Daily Telegraph, Metro, The Daily Mirror and the Daily Express all carry the same confronting image of medics trying to save a six-year-old girl who later died in hospital. According to the newspapers, she was killed during Russia’s “indiscriminate shelling” of Ukrainian cities. The photograph shows a crying woman covered in blood and holding a pink hat who is believed to be the child’s mother. Also featured in the splashes are the words of the doctor who tried to save her, “Show this to Putin”.
📰The front page of tomorrow's Daily Telegraph:
'Show this to Putin'#TomorrowsPapersToday
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— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) February 28, 2022
Tuesday's front page:
'SHOW THIS TO PUTIN'#TomorrowsPapersToday #bbcpapers #skypapers pic.twitter.com/LVL56Zd3Mn
— Metro Newspaper UK (@MetroUKNews) February 28, 2022
Tomorrow's front page: Fight for the innocents. #tomorrowspaperstoday
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— The Mirror (@DailyMirror) February 28, 2022
Tomorrow's front page: Monstrous#TomorrowsPapersTodayhttps://t.co/jqXbT4Pclv pic.twitter.com/Z1uhECk6vB
— Daily Express (@Daily_Express) February 28, 2022
The Times also leads with the story of the killed six-year-old girl, featuring her lying on a gurney beside her wounded father as a paramedic tries in vain to save her. “Barbaric strikes on Ukraine”, the paper declares.
https://twitter.com/BBCHelena/status/1498424508235010048
The Sun‘s front page is dominated by another child-victim of the Russian invasion with the headline “Her name was Polina”. According to the paper the ten-year-old girl was shot dead along with her parents in Kyiv.
Tomorrow's front page: Schoolgirl, 10, shot dead by Russian forces among 16 kids killed in Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine bloodbathhttps://t.co/THtHLsX5Jk pic.twitter.com/DocpFMx6Pl
— The Sun (@TheSun) February 28, 2022
“Humanity and Putin’s inhumanity” reads the Daily Mail‘s front accompanied by a photo of three young refugees with a fiery scene of Kyiv caused by Russian missiles.
Tuesday’s @DailyMailUK #MailFrontPages pic.twitter.com/K6B95nOijU
— Daily Mail U.K. (@DailyMailUK) February 28, 2022
i uses the same photo on its front page, reporting that “Putin bombs civilians”, along with claims from UK intelligence offices that the Kremlin “underestimated Ukrainian army’s ability to withstand land warfare”.
Putin bombs civilians. Tuesday’s @theipaper front page #tomorrowspaperstoday #bbcpapers #skypapers #ukraine pic.twitter.com/WWA5fxV2ji
— Tim Alden (@timaldi) February 28, 2022
The Financial Times carries an image of a burnt-out shell of tank in a suburban street with the headline “Russian rockets pound Kharkiv”.
Just published: front page of the Financial Times, UK edition, Tuesday 1 March https://t.co/XJGKbefa1E pic.twitter.com/mQxIwxMeJA
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) February 28, 2022
“Allies fear Putin will turn to ‘indiscriminate’ attacks” The Independent writes, adding that peace talks between Russia and Ukraine failed to make any breakthrough.
Our front page tomorrow Tuesday 1 March 2022#tomorrowspaperstoday pic.twitter.com/pTcCliz574
— Alastair Jamieson (@alastairjam) February 28, 2022
Russia’s “deadly raids” are defying “peace talks and sanctions”, The Guardian reports.
Guardian front page, Tuesday 1 March 2022: Russia's deadly raids defy sanctions and peace talks pic.twitter.com/eyab2ew4Sl
— The Guardian (@guardian) February 28, 2022
And the Daily Star splashes with a rare moment of humour that has emerged from the war-zone and gone viral online, showing screenshots of a video which appears to depict a farmer using his tractor to steal a Russian tank that was left unattended.
Tomorrow's Daily Star front page: Get your tank off my land.https://t.co/DzeQ96OiWw pic.twitter.com/N0vo3QKKVj
— Daily Star (@dailystar) February 28, 2022
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