Second wave of attack on Ukraine chilling as missile crater sits metres away from playground

The scale of Russia's attack on Ukraine is staggering and the location is haunting and chilling as a missile crater sits just metres away from a children's playground. 

There's been a second wave of attacks in Ukraine, crippling the electricity network just as the winter months draw closer.  

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged Western leaders to send him more air defence systems, a day after Russian missiles rained down on numerous cities, killing 19 people, including in the capital. 

The children of Kyiv have a new playground, but they didn't need it. They had a painfully perfect one just five steps away.  

One young boy stood with a toy gun in his hand, staring at the crater from a missile. Another uses rubble as building blocks, or is he helping with the cleanup. After the devastation, Kyiv needs all the help it can get. 

The impact isn't just visible, but psychological too. 

"It is scary because you don't know what can happen this moment, right now. Because it feels like war is far away from Kyiv, and one moment in the morning you woke up from the bomb," one Ukrainian said. 

Bombs were again the brutal alarm clock for thousands of Ukrainians this morning. At least one person was killed in a fiery outburst in the southeast city of Zaporizhzhya.

Russia released one video, where it boasted the goal of its strikes had been reached. 

And in the far west of Lviv, that goal was clearly to obliterate the energy infrastructure. Shops and cafes are now forced to operate by candlelight. 

"The world is still trying to find sense in Russia's recent aggression," said Zelenskyy. 

Today Zelensky appealed to G7 nations for air defence systems that would help create a shield in the sky.

US President Joe Biden promised to deliver, and all seven nations vowed to hold Vladimir Putin accountable for the pain his most recent barrage has inflicted. 

From the 19 deaths, and families shattered, to the lucky survivors like Olga and her son, who were playing at one park just hours before the missile hit. 

"We're living not far from here and we heard everything yesterday."

Picture central Auckland, central Wellington, Christchurch, just metres from where your children find joy and happiness and the crater of a missile strike.

This war has proven it has no boundaries. From random strikes in the centre of the capital city to the frontline in the far east, where today forensic teams recovered bodies from yet another mass grave, this time in the recently liberated city of Lyman. 

This war is everywhere - and everyone is hurting.