Two killed in Russian strike on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia: Officials

Two killed in Russian strike on Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia: Officials



KYIV – A 50-year-old man and his 11-year-old daughter had been killed after Russian forces struck a residential constructing in the southeastern Ukrainian metropolis of Zaporizhzhia early on Sunday, authorities stated.

Ukraine’s State Emergency service additionally reported {that a} 46-year-old girl, who it described because the spouse and mom of the victims, was pulled from the wreckage.

Metropolis council secretary Anatoliy Kurtev stated two missiles had destroyed one constructing and broken dozens of others in the course of the in a single day strike.

“The cursed Russian terrorists attacked Zaporizhzhia again and lost human lives,” he wrote on the Telegram messaging app.

The strike was the most recent in a collection of current assaults on civilian targets in the area as Moscow’s full-scale invasion drags into its second yr.

(Reporting by Dan Peleschuk; Enhancing by Kirsten Donovan)