Following Ukraine’s Eurovision victory, Russians paint ominous words on bombs aimed for Mariupol

Chilling images have emerged of cruel taunts scrawled on the side of Russian bombs destined for Mariupol in the wake of Ukraine’s success at the Eurovision song contest last night.

Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestra, who stormed to victory having delivered a rousing folk-rap rendition of their song ‘Stefania’, made an impassioned plea during their winners’ speech calling on Europe to provide further aid and evacuate the soldiers still trapped in the southern port city’s Azovstal steel works.

‘I ask all of you, please help Ukraine, Mariupol. Help Azovstal, right now,’ said the band’s frontman Oleh Psiuk.

But this morning, pictures posted on Telegram by pro-Kremlin and pro-war channel FighterBomber showed Russian shells emblazoned with messages mocking the band’s call for help, hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed to hold Eurovision in Mariupol next year.

‘Just as you asked for, Kalusha! For Azovstal,’ the messages read.

‘#Eurovision2022. I heard the call to f*** up Azov. Help Mariupol. Help Mariupol right now.’

Petr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, shared the images of the Russian bombs on his own Telegram channel, where he condemned Putin’s forces for having ‘lost their humanity’.

The OFAB 250-270 bombs on which the taunts were written are high explosive fragmentation devices designed to destroy military-industrial facilities, armoured vehicles and large groups of soldiers by spraying a torrent of armour piercing shrapnel over a large area.

‘They are just inhuman… they have lost anything remotely similar to humanism and humanity,’ the adviser declared.

‘This is the reaction of the Russian military to our victory at Eurovision 2022… In Russia, a century of repentance will follow the losses.’

Russia continued its brutal bombardment of Azovstal in the early hours of the morning, dropping what appeared to be devastating incendiary explosives on the already heavily damaged plant where Ukrainian soldiers have been making a final stand against Putin’s onslaught.