Russian forces hit an apartment building in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporozhye in an attack on Friday night. According to the regional governor, Russia dropped a glide bomb on a residential area, killing five people and injuring ten others.
Russian forces hit an apartment building in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporozhye in an attack on Friday night, announced regional governor and head of the regional military administration Ivan Fedorov. According to him, five people were killed and ten others were injured. TASR informs about it according to the report of the AP agency.
- Russia hit an apartment building in Zaporizhia, five people were killed.
- Gliding bombs were used on residential buildings.
- Ukraine is not yet able to effectively defend itself against these attacks.
- The attack on Odessa caused injuries and damage to residential buildings.
- There are at least 31 victims of the attack on Ternopil from Wednesday.
Gliding bombs
According to Fedorov, Russia dropped a glide bomb on one of the residential districts of the city in the Zaporozhye region. Shops and high-rise residential buildings were damaged – some of them for the third time since the start of the war, which Russia launched by invading Ukraine on February 24, 2022. In addition, a local market was also destroyed, Fedorov said on the Telegram network.
Gliding bombs that are dropped from a great height by Russian planes have been destroying Ukrainian cities on the front line for months, the AP agency wrote. According to her, Ukraine cannot effectively defend itself against such attacks.
Attack on Odessa
Russian forces also attacked the port city of Odessa overnight, where drones hit a residential area and injured five people, including a 16-year-old boy. Local authorities reported that residential buildings, a gas station with cars and an administrative building were on fire as a result of the attack. Private houses and trucks were also damaged.
In the meantime, the number of victims of the Russian attack on the Ukrainian city of Ternopil from the night to Wednesday increased to at least 31. It was one of the deadliest attacks this year and one of the worst in western Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion, AFP wrote. Among the confirmed victims so far are six children, almost 100 people were injured.
