ZAPORIZHZHIA/MOSCOW: Russian overnight strikes on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions killed at least six people on Wednesday morning, Ukrainian officials said.
Five were killed in a missile strike that hit a residential building in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, the local governor said, and one in a strike on a town just outside the city of Dnipro, Ukraine’s internal affairs minister Igor Klymenko said.
The Zaporizhzhia region has seen intense shelling throughout the 20-month war.
Russian forces seized control of parts of the region, including Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, in the first days after last February’s invasion.
Following the attack on Zaporizhzhia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia “continues to use terror and wage war on civilians” in a post on Telegram.
Zaporizhzhia governor Yuriy Malashko said Russia “launched six missile attacks on Zaporizhzhia city” between 1:33am and 1:48am and that an S-300 missile hit a residential building.
“The number of victims of the overnight terrorist attack by the Russians in Zaporizhzhia has increased to five,” Malashko said in a post on Telegram on Wednesday afternoon. The bodies of three people previously considered missing were pulled from the rubble during search and rescue operations throughout Wednesday, he said.
Separately, Russia on Wednesday shot down a missile over Sevastopol, home of its Black Sea Fleet on the Crimean peninsula, regional governor Mikhail Razvozhayev said on Telegram.
He said the missile had detonated in a field, and that there had been no injuries or damage to infrastructure. The defence ministry later said two missiles had been shot down over Crimea, both of them converted S-200 anti-aircraft defence missiles.
Published in Dawn, October 19th, 2023
Source: dawn.com
