Over 80 Casualties, Mangled and Destroyed Buildings: All Information about Recent Artillery Strikes in Zaporizhzhia
During the last several weeks, the Russian artillery has been systematically attacking the city of Zaporizhzhia destroying infrastructure and murdering local residents.
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Since early October, the city of Zaporizhzhia and its outskirts have been daily attacked by Russian missiles bringing destruction upon civilian infrastructure and housing and death upon local residents.
The number of fatal and non-fatal casualties from Russian attacks is increasing every days. Some of the victims are minors.
TSN.ua has gathered all available information about recent artillery attacks in Zaporizhzhia.
In the early hours of September 30th, the Russian troops attacked humanitarian convoy in the north-eastern area just outside of Zaporizhzhia. As of October 8th, 32 fatal civilian casualties were confirmed.
Russian pro-government mass media immediately accused Ukraine of the attack, however the Presidential Office issued a statement claiming that this is a typical example of Russian propagandist tactics.
According to Oleksandr Starukh, the Head of Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, 16 Russian missiles were fired that morning. Four of them were shot down by Ukrainian air defence units, and nine missiles hit a commercial facilities, where there were no casualties. The last three missiles hit the humanitarian convoy. It was a deliberate and premediated mass murder, Starukh stressed. The missiles landed at the beginning, in the middle and at the end of the convoy to cover the maximum casualty radius.
In the morning of October 2nd, during the air raid alarm, the invaders once again attacked the city of Zaporizhzhia and its outskirts with S-300 missiles destroying industrial infrastructure.
According to Oleksandr Starukh, the Head of Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, the invaders were deliberately attacking the city’s infrastructure due to massive losses at the frontline.
In the early hours of Monday, October 3rd, the Russian invaders carried out another missile strike targeting the city of Zaporizhzhia and two villages in Zaporizhzhia District. Around ten S-300 missiles were fired. A rehabilitation center for children with special needs was damaged.
In the morning of October 6th, Zaporizhzhia was once again under enemy fire. Invasion army fired around seven missiles at residential districts setting on fire civilian housing. Multiple victims were buried under the rubble. According to official reports, 19 people were killed in the attack.
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Later on October 6th, invaders once again fired missiles at Zaporizhzhia Region’s capital targeting infrastructural facilities. At least three civilians were killed in the attack.
On October 7th, Zaporizhzhia was for the first time attacked by Iranian kamikaze drones that hit the city’s critical infrastructure facilities. According to local authorities, one of the drones landed in the apartment block yard. Fourteen people were killed.
In the evening of the same day, the Russian army once again attacked the city of Zaporizhzhia and its outskirts with missiles.
Today, on October 9th, the Russians fired 12 more missiles at Zaporizhzhia. Almost all of them hit residential houses.
Twelve people were killed in the massive strike, and 49 more civilians were injured. Including minors. A 9-storey-high apartment block was partially ruined. Five private houses were destroyed. The strike also caused damage to infrastructural facility and 20 civilians cars.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi described the night missile strike against residential district in Zaporizhzhia as “absolute evil”.
"Zaporizhzhia again. Merciless strikes on peaceful people again. On residential buildings, just in the middle of the night. It is already known about 12 dead. 49 victims are in the hospital, including 6 children. Absolute meanness. Absolute evil. Savages and terrorists. From the one who gave this order to everyone who fulfilled this order. They will bear responsibility. For sure. Before the law and before people", he noted.
According to the military expert Serhii Hrabskyi, the invaders are shelling Zaporizhzhia so intensively in order to create prerequisite for future offensive operations. They also deliberately terrorize local population hoping that civilians will ask the Armed Forces of Ukraine to move further from the city.
These actions have nothing in common with military feasibility, but “if we are talking about terrorist activities, this is the purest manifestation of it”, he believes.
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