Seconds from death: Moment Ukrainian sprints from path of incoming Russian drone before it lands yards away in huge fireball explosion

New footage has emerged of a man narrowly escaping a Russian jet-powered Shahed drone strike in Kyiv which landed mere yards away from him.The drone struck a children's playground in the village of Sviatopetrivske, in Kyiv's Bucha district, on Thursday afternoon, with the man managing to flee seconds before the massive explosion.Video shows the would-be victim walking through the area, seemingly on his phone, before glancing up and spotting the incoming drone.He immediately turns and sprints for safety as it crashes behind him, obliterating the playground and sending fiery plumes of smoke and debris billowing into the air.The man escapes unharmed, while flames continue to engulf what moments earlier had been an idyllic scene.According to local news outlet UkrMedia, rescue workers rushed to the nursery school near the Petrivsky Kvartal housing estate and quickly extinguished the blaze.There were no reported casualties, with everyone else on site believed to have been sheltering at the time of the attack.The near miss comes amid an intensifying Russian aerial assault on Ukraine, with the Kremlin increasingly deploying fast jet-powered drones in near-constant daytime raids, which Kyiv's air defences have struggled to counter. New footage has emerged of a man narrowly escaping a Russian jet-powered Shahed drone strike in Kyiv which landed mere yards away from him After spotting the drone, the man immediately turns and sprints for safety as it crashes behind him, obliterating the playground and sending fiery plumes of smoke and debris billowing into the air The man escapes unharmed, while flames continue to engulf what moments earlier had been an idyllic sceneAs civilian infrastructure continues to come under attack, Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the site of a devastating missile strike on a five-storey residential building in Pryluky, Chernihiv region, where 22 civilians were killed. Ukraine hit back by striking and disabling a major data centre operated by Russian technology company Yandex today in the second such action in successive days, widening the scope of its attacks inside Russia after Moscow hit data hubs in Ukraine.Yandex, which is heavily involved in Russia's AI development and is sometimes called Russia's Google, said its data centre in the Kaluga region southwest of Moscow had been struck by Ukrainian drones and partly put out of action.Ukrainian arms maker Firepoint said Kyiv had used its FP-1 one-way attack drones to mount the strike against what it called Yandex's biggest data centre and said that several of its modules had been completely knocked out of action.A day earlier, a Ukrainian attack shut down Yandex's data hub in Sasovo, southeast of Moscow, where two of the three supercomputers used to develop the company's AI model are housed.Yandex said it was facing a difficult challenge to maintain its services, used by millions of Russians daily for navigation, music, movies, food orders and other tasks. It also provides cloud computing services on which many businesses depend.Locked in a deadly war of attrition after more than four years of fighting, both Russia and Ukraine have expanded drone attacks this year on infrastructure targets, from energy facilities and refineries to ports and vessels carrying oil and grain, e-commerce warehouses and, most recently, data centres.The full scale of the disruption caused by the attacks was not immediately clear, although messages appeared on at least one Yandex app warning of potential problems in its operation. Smoke billows from Yandex's Sasovo hub, one of the company's five large data centres, after a fire following a drone strike on Thursday forced the suspension of operations at the site Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband and Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky spoke during their visit to the site of a Russian missile strike in Pryluky, Chernihiv region Locals and rescuers cleared the rubble of a residential building destroyed in a Russian missile strike on WednesdayYandex said it was working around the clock to try to restore services which had been disrupted.'Right now this is our most important task, but unfortunately it is not an easy one,' it said.Russia has struck Ukrainian data centres and telecommunications infrastructure over the past month, including targets in central Kyiv.'We always respond in mirror-like fashion,' Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday. He confirmed on Friday that his drones had struck the Kaluga data centre in what he called 'our tit-for-tat response'.The regional governor said nine people had been injured in Ukraine's attacks, five of whom were being treated in hospital.Ukraine has previously targeted the warehouses of specific companies it deems central to Russia's economy, including dozens of sites operated by e-commerce giants Wildberries and Ozon. Russia responded by striking their Ukrainian equivalents.Yandex operates five data centres, two of which have already been hit. It said in 2021 that the Sasovo data hub, which was struck on Thursday, hosted two of its three supercomputers built around Nvidia A100 chips, which it uses to train its YandexGPT large AI model. Yandex has declined to say whether the supercomputers were affected by the attack.Multiple online services in Russia reported technical issues on Thursday, including real estate aggregator Cian, a book portal called Litmarket, and the websites of Russian Railways and professional football club Spartak Moscow.Russian attacks on Ukrainian data centres have forced some of them to suspend operations, while 100,000 households suffered temporary internet outages after one attack. Ukraine's digital minister said last month that the country was responding by moving digital infrastructure underground.READ MORE: Ed Miliband embraces Ukrainians at scene of Putin bombing raid that killed 22 as Britain announces new sanctions on Russia