Russian strike on town of Zaporizhzhia kills six

Twenty-three people were also injured, three of them seriously, according to regional governor Ivan Fedorov. He spoke of a strike on an “infrastructure site”.

Six people were killed and 23 others injured, three of them seriously, in a Russian strike on Tuesday November 5 on the town of Zaporizhia, in southern Ukraine, announced the regional governor, Ivan Fedorov. He had reported six deaths and nine injured in a previous report. The deadly attack carried out with “a missile” touched a “site d’infrastructures”, declared Ivan Fedorov, who also reported a fire, ultimately “extinct”at the scene of the strike.

Shortly before the strike, the air alert for the risk of a ballistic missile attack had been triggered in the region which is also home to the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, occupied by Russia since the start of its invasion of Ukraine early 2022. The head of the Ukrainian presidential administration, Andriï Iermak, reacted on Telegram by calling on the West to do more to help Ukraine.

Several Ukrainian military media and bloggers have raised, in recent days, the risk of a possible Russian offensive in the region. Russian bombings on Zaporizhia have also intensified in recent weeks. On the same day, another Russian bombing killed two people, 48-year-old civilians, in the village of Gluchkivka, in the Kharkiv region, in the northeast of the country.