A Russian rocket hit an apartment complex in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, killing one person and injuring 25 others, including two children, Ukrainian authorities said on Wednesday.
“Russia is shelling the city with brutal brutality,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an explanation accompanied by implicit video of the assault he featured on Message. “Neighborhoods where conventional people and children reside are being laid off.”
The video, which appears to have been caught on CCTV cameras, shows a rocket raising an uproar around the city’s historic private structure. Flares jumped out of burnt-out lofts in some unique stories, as reported by the Ukrainian media.
“One of the rockets hit between two tall structures, slightly destroying condominiums and galleries, damaging roofs and breaking windows,” the Ukrainian examiner’s office said, according to CNN. “The shock wave and debris also damaged other nearby private structures, vehicles, and other common citizen foundations in the city.”
Three of the dozens of wounded remained in basic condition, said the secretary of the Zaporizhzhia city chamber, Anatolii Kurtiev.
Russian missile hits Ukraine apartment building, killing 1, injuring dozens https://t.co/It53FRLT5I through @nypost
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Another assault on Wednesday, this time by detonating Russian robots, killed seven people and destroyed part of a high school and two residences in Rzhyshchiv, a city about 90 minutes south of the Ukrainian capital Kiev.
More than 20 people were hospitalized with injuries, the provincial police said. On Twitter, Zelensky criticized what he called a “Russian scare night.”
“Every time someone tries to listen to the word ‘harmony’ in Moscow, there is one more request for such criminal attacks,” the Ukrainian president wrote. Russia has denied targeting ordinary citizens, despite routinely attacking lofts and the framework with mounted guns and rockets.