The death toll from Russian strikes on the town of Zaporizhia on Thursday rose to eight, while one person was killed in Odessa overnight, also in southern Ukraine, local officials and authorities said on Friday. relief.
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“The number of deaths resulting from the Russian attack on Zaporizhia increased to eight, including a 1-year-old boy,” declared the governor of the Zaporizhia region, Ivan Fedorov, reporting 42 injured on his Telegram account.
Rescuers pulled two injured children and an injured woman from the rubble, he previously indicated on the same social network.
Glide bombs hit a hospital and residential buildings in Zaporizhia, according to local authorities.
In the port city of Odessa, Ukrainian emergency services said one person died following strikes overnight from Thursday to Friday.
“According to initial information, one person died and nine were injured,” emergency services said on Telegram, reporting fires in houses and warehouses.
In Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second city, in the northeast of the country, at least 25 people were injured overnight from Thursday to Friday in a Russian strike on an apartment building, announced Igor Terekhov, the mayor of the city on its Telegram count.
“The number of injured continues to increase. Now there are 25,” he added.
The mayor previously reported “people stuck on the third floor of the apartment building”, specifying that rescue operations were underway.
“In Kharkiv the Russians intentionally hit a block of apartments. The Russians are also attacking kyiv with missiles,” declared Andriï Iermak, President Zelensky’s chief of staff, on the same social network.
The military administration of the city of Kyiv clarified that air defense had come into action in the capital, on its Telegram account.
The day before, during the night from Wednesday to Thursday, the military authorities in Kyiv had described a “massive” attack by around thirty Russian drones, which left two people injured.
The Ukrainian capital has been targeted by drone attacks almost daily since the beginning of November and for twenty days in October, according to press releases from the military administration.
For months, Ukrainian authorities have been asking their Western allies to provide them with more air defense systems to repel Russian attacks.
Russian Security Council head Sergei Shoigu has urged kyiv’s Western allies to begin negotiations with Moscow if they want to end attacks on Ukrainians.
