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Heiress Alyona Zaitseva has been detained for two months pending an investigation after the horror crash this week.

There was carnage of the streets of Ukrainian city Kharkiv after a speeding Lexus struck a VW Touareg before mowing down people waiting on the pavement at a pedestrian crossing.

It then overturned before coming to a rest on its side.

At least five people were killed, with dozens injured. Bloody scenes of bodies strewn across the pavement have since emerged.

Zaitseva wept in her cell after an extraordinary appeal to allow her multi-millionaire father to compensate victims and their families failed.

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A court in Kharkiv was told that contrary to earlier denials there was evidence in a urine test of drug-taking, consistent with cannabis use.

A blood test showed her clear of alcohol and drugs, and further analysis has been ordered.

The glamorous oligarch's daughter was seen in tears alone in the courtroom cage at the start of a legal process which could see her jailed for ten years.

In an extraordinary message from the dock to the bereaved and injured, the weeping heiress said: "I am sorry that this situation happened and people suffered.

"This is the only thing that truly concerns me now.

"I am hoping that families will allow my parents to help them because this is the worst that could happen.

"All my thoughts are about it."

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Heiress Alyona Zaitseva's armed bodyguards drove up in two jeeps immediately after the crash and protected her from a furious crowd who witnessed the appalling crash.

The dead included a 15-year-old schoolgirl.

"It's like a war zone," said one onlooker seeking to care for the injured.

Zaitseva, 20, daughter of local energy company boss and multi-millionaire Vasily Zaitsev, was uninjured.

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Among the seriously wounded was a woman who is seven months pregnant, described as being in a grave condition in hospital.

Student Ms Zaitseva was detained initially for three days.

The driver of the Touareg, Gennady Dronov, 49, was on a green light when the vehicles collided, according to witnesses.

Three of the dead were named as Elena Berchenko, 25, Yury Neudachin, 24, Oksana Nesterenko, 36.