At least three people were killed and six others injured in an overnight strike on an apartment building in Zaporizhia, southern Ukraine, local authorities said Thursday. In a statement, the Ukrainian police say that a Russian missile, “according to preliminary information from a battery of S-300”, destroyed more than ten apartments in this building “where people were sleeping peacefully”.
“During the search operations, six injured people were taken out of the rubble, as well as the bodies of three people,” said the source. Images, published by the Ukrainian emergency services, show residents being evacuated in the middle of the rubble, helped by firefighters.
The five-story building was “almost completely destroyed” in the strike, Anatoly Kurtev, the mayor of Zapporijjia, said on social media.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced an act of a “terrorist state that wants to make each of our days a day of terror”. “But evil will not prevail in our land,” he added on Telegram. We will drive out all occupants and they will answer for everything. »
This strike recalls a Russian bombardment in mid-January against an apartment building in Dnipro, a large city in central eastern Ukraine, which left 46 dead.