According to Ukrainian emergency services, the women called for help on their mobile phones to say they were buried under rubble after the attack on Tuesday evening in Zaporizhia.
Deadly Russian strikes on civilian areas are a feature of the nearly three-year-old war.
Ukraine’s Western allies are sending more aid to help it continue to fight the Russian invasion, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the Zaporizhia strike demonstrated his country still needs more air defense systems.
He urged Western partners to send the weapons they hold in their arsenals.
“We currently do not have enough systems to protect our country from Russian missiles. But our partners have these systems,” President Zelensky said Tuesday evening in his daily address to the nation.
The air defense systems possessed by Ukraine’s allies “should save lives and not gather dust in storage bases,” he argued.
Attacks in Russia
Meanwhile, Ukraine continued its long-range attacks on areas behind Russian lines.
A Ukrainian drone attack caused a fire at an industrial facility in Russia’s Bryansk region, according to Governor Alexander Bogomaz.
Air defenses shot down 14 Ukrainian drones over the Bryansk region early Wednesday, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
Additionally, a Ukrainian missile attack on the town of Taganrog in the Rostov region early Wednesday damaged an industrial plant, regional governor Yuri Slusar said.
President Zelensky thanked Ukrainian forces for striking “military facilities on Russian territory, as well as facilities of the oil and energy complex.”
“It is precisely such scope and precision that is gradually bringing Russia back to reality – to the reality that the war must be over,” he argued on Telegram.
It was not possible to verify the claims of both camps.
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