Several people were killed and dozens injured as shelling hit Ukraine’s city of Zaporizhzhia, damaging several buildings, including residential blocks
The pre-dawn fusillade was the second of its kind against the city in three days. It came a day after a blast hit Russia’s road-and-rail, the key supply line for Russian forces battling to hold territory around the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson.
The rescue operation at the nine-storey apartment building was complicated by a fire that broke out in the rubble, Starukh said. “Zaporizhzhia again. Merciless strikes on peaceful people again. On residential buildings, just in the middle of the night," Zelenskiy said on the Telegram messaging app. Rescue workers carried the bodies of residents who died out through a window and laid them out on the ground under blankets and in body bags.
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