Moscow has stepped up its assaults on the town in southeastern Ukraine by launching sustained bombardments with glide bombs, native authorities mentioned.
Russia has launched new strikes on Zaporizhia, killing one individual and wounding six, authorities mentioned on Tuesday morning.
Local authorities mentioned this was the second consecutive evening that glide bombs had attacked the southeastern metropolis, inflicting heavy harm to about 40 multi-story buildings.
Zaporizhia Oblast Governor Ivan Fedorov mentioned the assault used glide bombs, retrofitted Soviet-era weapons. This is the primary time such weapons have been used to strike the town since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine started in 2022, he mentioned.
Deputy head of the regional state administration Ruslan Movcha mentioned that Russia attacked the town heart 3 times on Monday, twice with shelling and as soon as with glide bombs.
The Ukrainian state emergency providers posted on the social media platform X that the assault lasted two hours and focused the regional heart.
Local resident Kostiantyn Hrudko mentioned the roof, home windows and doorways of his dwelling have been broken in consequence. “I heard a whistle and we fell to the bottom,” mentioned Hrudko, an evacuee initially from the town of Kherson.
Another native resident, Lado Chikobava, mentioned he fell to the bottom after listening to a loud “bang” and seeing sparks. “I obtained up, regarded and the neighbor’s home was destroyed,” he mentioned.
Zaporizhia area is considered one of 4, together with Donetsk, Kherson and Luhansk, in southern and jap Ukraine that Russia partially and illegally annexed in September 2022.
Meanwhile, the governor of Russia’s Belgorod area mentioned on Tuesday that Ukrainian shelling of a village close to the border with Ukraine had killed three individuals, together with a toddler.
“Yesterday, because of the shelling of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, three civilians have been killed. One of them is a 15-year-old lady. We are all mourning with the households and associates of the deceased. Four individuals have been significantly injured, together with two youngsters,” Vyacheslav Gladkov mentioned on Telegram.
Additional sources • EBU, AP
