strikes on Zaporizhia leave eight dead and 42 injured

Other strikes in Odessa and Kharkiv left one dead and several injured.

Russian strikes on the town of Zaporizhia left eight people dead on Thursday, local officials and emergency services reported on Friday, November 8. “The death toll from the Russian attack on Zaporizhzhia has risen to eight, including a one-year-old boy”declared the governor of the region, Ivan Fedorov, reporting 42 injured on his Telegram account. Rescuers pulled two injured children and an injured woman from the rubble, he previously reported on the same social network. Glide bombs hit a hospital and residential buildings, 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 reports, one person died and nine were injured”supplemented the rescue services on Telegram, reporting fires in houses and warehouses. In Kharkiv, Ukraine's second city, at least 25 people were injured in the night from Thursday to Friday in a Russian strike on an apartment building, Igor Terekhov, the city's mayor, announced on his Telegram account. “The number of injured continues to increase,” he further clarified.