The number of people injured as a result of the attack by Russian forces on Zaporozhye in the south-eastern part of Ukraine has increased to 40. Among the injured are children. Four people are dead. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, guided bombs were dropped on the city.
After 8 p.m. Ukrainian time (7 p.m. in Poland), the Zaporozhye Regional Administration announced on its Telegram channel that 40 people were injured as a result of Thursday's attack by Russian forces, including four children.
“Boys aged 15, five and one, as well as a four-month-old girl are under the care of doctors. Over 30 people remain in hospitals,” said a message on Telegram. The administration also reported that “11 skyscrapers and over 40 private sector buildings were damaged as a result of Russian shelling.” “Guided air bombs destroyed the entire staircase of a skyscraper in a residential area of the city,” we read in a post on Telegram.
Zaporozhye. A Russian aerial bomb hit this place t.me/zoda_gov_ua
“There may still be people under the rubble”
Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said earlier on Thursday (after 4 p.m. Ukrainian time) that the number of people killed as a result of Russian airstrikes had increased to four. As Klymenko reported at the time, 18 people were injured, including three children.
“Rescuers pulled two injured children and an injured woman from the rubble. She lived on the third floor, but after the building collapsed she found herself on the second floor. There may still be people under the rubble. The police have information about people with whom he has no contact,” Klymenko said in a statement. entry on social networking sites.
Attack site in Zaporizhiafacebook.com/MNS.GOV.UA
Dropped KABs
The Ukrainian Air Force announced after 13 on Telegram that guided aircraft bombs (KAB) were dropped on Zaporizhia.
State Service Ukraine Emergency Situations Committee earlier reported that the attack resulted in partial destruction of a four-story building. The shock wave damaged the hospital building and several single-family houses were also damaged.
According to the head of the Zaporizhia Oblast, Ivan Fedorov, Russian bombs fell in several districts of the city. The official said that residents helped rescuers to extract the injured from the rubble.
The site of the attack of Russian forces in Zaporozhye facebook.com/MNS.GOV.UA
Zaporozhye after the Russian attack facebook.com/MNS.GOV.UA
Zelensky's reaction
The president reacted to the attack Volodymyr Zelenskywho stated that such tragedies not only kill people, but also destroy “the meaning of any words that there are allegedly too few talks with Russia and phone calls to the Kremlin.”
“They (in the Kremlin) rejoice in the death of people. And that is why air defense for Ukraine, the ability to destroy Russian military aircraft, allowing Ukraine to carry out long-range attacks against the occupier – this is real protection of life. I am grateful to everyone in the world who in they help,” the head of the Ukrainian state emphasized in a post on Telegram.
Suspilne, NV, PAP, tvn24.pl
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