KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian assault on Zaporizhzhia overnight struck apartment buildings and killed at minimum 17 folks, a leading formal in the Ukrainian metropolis explained Sunday.
The city has been repeatedly struck in recent months and is in the Ukrainian controlled-element of a location that Russian President Vladimir Putin annexed in violation of international law previous week.
Metropolis council Secretary Anatoliy Kurtev stated the town was struck by rockets right away, and that at least 5 personal houses had been wrecked and about 40 were being ruined.
The assault arrived just after an explosion Saturday induced the partial collapse of a bridge linking the Crimean Peninsula with Russia, detrimental an essential offer artery for the Kremlin’s faltering war hard work in southern Ukraine and hitting a towering symbol of Russian electricity in the region.
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