At least 11 people were injured today in a series of Russian shelling in Zaporizhia, southern Ukraine, Ukrainian first aid services said.

The regional capital was pounded by several “massive airstrikes” in the early hours, emergency services said in a statement.

“A building and six houses located in different districts of the city were severely damaged,” they added, adding that 42 rescuers rushed there to help people who may have been trapped in the debris.

“According to the first data, the number of injured has reached 11”, they also clarified, noting that “(…) rescue operations have (now) been completed”.

A woman was freed from the wreckage and taken to hospital, they said.

Regional governor Ivan Fedorov had earlier said in a statement that the injured were six, “two men and four women.”

He also clarified that the Russian army hit the city of Zaporizhia twice, destroying mainly “a multi-storey building and houses”.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff, Andriy Germak, condemned in a social media post the new Russian attack aimed at “terrorizing” the civilian population.

Germak once again called on Kiev’s Western allies to provide “more weapons” to stop Russia’s fire and to impose effective economic sanctions on Russia’s “military-industrial complex” in order to put more pressure on Moscow.

Russia annexed the Ukrainian region of Zaporizhia in 2022, but has not yet brought it fully under its control. The large city of the same name, located along the Dnieper River, is still under the control of Kiev, but remains within the firing range of Russian forces.