At least 14 people died this Thursday during the bombardments in the city of Zaporizhia (South), which had been hit at dawn by seven missiles, according to an official Ukrainian source.
“Sad news continues to reach us thanks to the analysis of the rubble in the buildings affected by the attack. At this time, the death toll has already increased to fourteen,” said Anatoly Kourtev, the secretary of Zaporizhia, on Telegram on Friday night. . City hall.
The first number was on Thursday of one dead and seven injured. On Friday, the Ukrainian emergency services had already placed it back at eleven dead. Seven missiles hit Zaporizhia at 5 am local time on Thursday, three of which hit the city center.
A building almost completely blown up
A building that fronted the main artery of this industrious city had been almost completely blown up. Out of five stories, only the ground floor was still standing. The rest was just rubble.
This is not the first disaster in the city. On September 30, 31 people were killed outside Zaporizhia in a parking lot when a missile crashed into them. Apart from one police officer killed, the other 30 were seeking to return to the part of Ukraine under Russian control.
Zaporizhia “undergoes massive rocket attacks every day,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced on Friday. It is a “conscious crime”, thundered in the Telegram message.
Ukrainian-controlled Zaporizhia is in the region of the same name, which Moscow has claimed for annexation, although it does not have full control of it.
It is about sixty kilometers northeast of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, which the Russians have occupied militarily since the beginning of March, and which Moscow and Kyiv have accused each other of bombing for months.
Source: BFM TV
