A Russian strike in the town of Zaporizhia, in southern Ukraine, left one dead and 16 injured overnight from Wednesday to Thursday, the region’s governor said.
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“A Russian missile attack on Zaporizhia killed one person,” a 47-year-old man, Ivan Fedorov wrote on Telegram, adding that a two-month-old girl was among the injured and posting images of gutted residential buildings.
He specified that the region had been the target of 361 strikes on 10 localities in 24 hours, including four with missiles on the town of Zaporizhia and 188 with drones.
The Russian army has intensified its attacks on southern Ukraine in recent months and increased its strikes on Zaporizhia, a city which had 700,000 inhabitants before the war.
-Since November, Ukraine has feared an offensive towards this city which is approximately 35 kilometers from Russian positions and 50 kilometers from the nuclear power plant of the same name, occupied by Russia since 2022.
The Russian army has recently advanced into northeastern Ukraine, while Ukrainian forces occupy a small part of Russia’s Kursk region.
While the Russian offensive is due to enter its fourth year at the end of February, both camps have worked recently to cement their positions in view of Donald Trump’s return to the White House.
Invested on Monday, the latter assured Wednesday that he would have “no choice but to impose high levels of taxes, customs duties and sanctions on everything that Russia sells to the United States and to other countries” if Moscow does not reach an agreement with Ukraine “now”.
The United States has already imposed several rounds of sanctions and embargoes on imports from Russia, which have fallen significantly, from 4.3 billion dollars from January to November 2023, to 2.9 billion over the same period. last year.
