Russian strike on a Zaporizhzhia apartment building injures 13 people, including five children
A Russian attack on a multi-storey residential building in Zaporizhzhia's Kosmichnyi district on Friday injured 13 people, including five children, the regional governor and Ukraine's State Emergency Service said. Rescuers freed 14 people who had been trapped in their apartments, and fires broke out on two floors. Separately, the governor said strikes at about 06:30 killed a 17-year-old and injured at least four other people in the region.
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Key points
- A strike on an apartment building in Zaporizhzhia's Kosmichnyi district injured 13 people, including five children, the governor said.
- Rescuers freed 14 people trapped in their apartments; fires broke out on two floors.
- Separately, the governor said strikes at about 06:30 killed a 17-year-old in the region.
What happened
The Kosmichnyi district strike came hours after a night of strikes across Ukraine in which a Kyiv hospital was set ablaze and a Ukrainian drone attack on Volgograd killed four people, by the two sides' own accounts. About three-quarters of Zaporizhzhia Oblast is held by Russian forces, and the city is struck regularly.
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What we know
- That the building was hit and 13 people, including five children, were injured, on the governor's account.
- That rescuers freed 14 trapped residents, on the emergency service's account.
What we don't know yet
- Whether the injured count will rise — search and rescue work was still continuing.
- What weapon struck the building, and Russia's account of the strike — neither was in the reporting read.
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Why this label: The toll and the damage are the regional governor's account, reported by The Kyiv Independent; no Russian comment was in the reporting read.
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Why this label: The rescue figures are the emergency service's own account, carried in the same report.
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Why this label: The governor's wider figures are his office's account; the death of the 17-year-old matches the Zaporizhzhia toll in Vozia's overnight-strikes story.
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Why it matters
A daytime hit on a residential building, with children among the injured and residents trapped inside, is the civilian cost of the strikes war in one street — and it landed on a day when both capitals were also talking about peace negotiations.
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Published in Checking state — the governor's and the emergency service's accounts are on the record, and search and rescue work is continuing.