Three people — a 67-year-old woman and two men aged 62 and 49 — died in the airstrike, according to Ivan Fedorov, head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration. Thirteen others were injured. The strike hit residential blocks, damaging homes and non-residential buildings and sparking fires.
Ukraine's State Emergency Service said apartments on the third through ninth floors of a high-rise caught fire, along with 18 parked cars. Shockwaves and debris damaged another 13 vehicles and neighboring buildings.
President Volodymyr Zelensky reported two dead in Zaporizhzhia and said Russian forces also attacked Kherson with guided bombs the same day, killing one person and wounding two. In Odesa, a combined missile and drone strike injured a 17-year-old boy and a 23-year-old woman.
Russian military officials did not comment on the Zaporizhzhia attack. Moscow has denied deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure throughout the war.
A local resident whose home was destroyed told Radio Liberty that her building had been hit by aerial bombs before. “We hadn’t recovered from the last explosion, and now another one,” she said.