At least 17 people have been killed and dozens wounded in a Russian missile strike in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia.
Attack comes after explosion on Crimea bridge damaged important supply route for KremlinA residential building is shown heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on Sunday.The blasts in the city, which remains under Ukrainian control but sits in a region Moscow has claimed as its own, blew out windows in adjacent buildings and left at least one high-rise apartment building partially collapsed.
The rockets that pounded Zaporizhzhia overnight damaged at least 20 private homes and 50 apartment buildings, city council Secretary Anatoliy Kurtev said. At least 40 people were hospitalized, Kurtev said on Telegram.Residents gathered behind police tape by a building where several floors collapsed from the blast, leaving a smouldering chasm at least 12 metres wide where apartments once stood.
Tetyana Lazun'ko, 73, and her husband, Oleksii, took shelter in the hallway of their top floor apartment after hearing sirens, warning of an attack. They were spared the worst of the blast that left them in fear and disbelief. Shards of glass, entire window and door frames and other debris covered the exterior floors of the apartment where they'd lived since 1974. Lazun'ko wept inconsolably, wondering why their home in an area with no military infrastructure in sight was targeted.Oleksii, who sat quietly, leaning on a wooden cane, has suffered three strokes, Lazun'ko said. Breaking his silence, he said slowly, "This is international terrorism. You can't be saved from it.
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