This picture reveals a faculty constructing destroyed after an airstrike within the metropolis of Pokrovsk, Donetsk area, on September 28, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. | Picture credit score: AFP
A minimum of 13 folks had been injured in a collection of Russian assaults in Zaporizhzhia, southern Ukraine, emergency companies introduced on Sunday (September 29, 2024).
The regional capital was hit by a number of “huge airstrikes” at daybreak, Ukrainian emergency companies mentioned in a press release.
In the meantime, within the besieged japanese area of Donetsk, regional governor Vadym Filashkin mentioned three folks had been killed and one other wounded in recent Russian assaults on Pokrovsk, the logistics hub that has been beneath assault from Moscow for weeks.
Russia’s Protection Ministry claimed it had seized the village of Makiivka within the neighboring Lugansk area, a settlement that Ukrainian authorities mentioned had been evacuated in late July.
“In Zaporizhzhia, which Russia has annexed however doesn’t totally management, 42 members of the emergency companies had been serving to these probably trapped beneath the rubble,” emergency officers mentioned.
“A constructing and 6 homes in numerous neighborhoods of town suffered a whole lot of destruction. The variety of victims has elevated to 13 folks. Among the many injured is a 17-year-old younger man,” they added.
A girl rescued from the rubble was taken to the hospital. Regional Governor Ivan Fedorov had earlier reported that six folks had been injured.
He mentioned Zaporizhzhia was hit by 10 Russian strikes that destroyed “a multi-story constructing and a few homes.”
The state railway firm reported that one of many Zaporizhzhia prepare stations was broken.
Andriy Yermak, head of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s workplace, criticized in a social media submit an try to “terrorize” the civilian inhabitants.
Yermak additionally reiterated his name for Western allies to produce extra weapons to intercept Russian missiles and apply extra financial sanctions in opposition to Moscow.
Russia annexed the Zaporizhzhia area in 2022, however the principle metropolis of the identical identify stays beneath kyiv’s management.
Printed – September 29, 2024 10:17 pm IST