Zaporizhia “undergoes daily missile attacks,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky complained last night, referring to a “crime of intent” by the Russian military in his speech uploaded to the Telegram platform.
At least seventeen people were killed Thursday in shelling in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhia, which was hit by seven rockets early this morning, Ukrainian authorities said.
The Ukrainian Emergency Service reported late Saturday night that seventeen people, including a child and a victim who succumbed to their injuries in a hospital, died in the bombings. Also, he added via Telegram, 21 people were rescued, of which twelve are still hospitalized.
The initial casualty count on Thursday was one dead and seven injured. The day before Friday, the Ukrainian emergency services revised this tally for the worse, speaking of eleven dead. And, on Friday night, Anatoly Kurtev, secretary of the city council in Zaporizhia, announced via Telegram the “sad news” that the death toll had reached fourteen.
The seven missiles hit Zaporizhia at 05:00 on Thursday morning. The three hit the city center.
A high-rise property on a central thoroughfare of the industrial city was almost completely demolished. Of the five floors, only the ground floor remained standing. The rest turned into a pile of rubble.
This is not the first disaster the city has experienced. On September 30, 31 people were killed in its district, in a parking lot, when a rocket fell on the site. Apart from one policeman who was killed, the remaining thirty wanted to reach some part of Ukraine under Russian control.
Zaporizhia “undergoes daily missile attacks,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky complained last night, referring to a “crime of intent” by the Russian military in his speech uploaded to the Telegram platform.
The city, controlled by the Ukrainian army, is the capital of the district of the same name, one of the four that Russia annexed a few days ago. Russian forces control about 70% of this region.
The city is some sixty kilometers northeast of the country’s and Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, which the Russian armed forces have owned since early March. Kyiv and Moscow have been accusing each other of bombing the facility for months.
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