Violent Russian missile attack in the night on Zaporizhzhia , in southern Ukraine. The toll, still provisional, speaks of 17 deaths , as communicated on Telegram by Anatoly Kurtev, secretary of the city council.
"According to preliminary data - he writes - five private houses have been destroyed and about 40 have been damaged. At this moment, 17 people are known to have died".
According to local media reports there are also 44 injured , many concentrated in the rubble of a skyscraper hit in the city center and destroyed.
"Rescuers, doctors and all relevant services are working on the spot. People are already provided with all the necessary assistance," said the governor of Zaporizhzhzia Oblast, Oleksandr Starukh.
Also yesterday the city had suffered an attack that had caused another 17 deaths .
Meanwhile, while the accusations between Moscow and Kiev continue, a lane of the bridge over the Kerch Strait , which connects Russia to annexed Crimea in 2014, hit yesterday morning in an attack, has been reopened for vehicle transit. Tomorrow Putin will chair the Moscow Security Council, meeting to discuss the bridge.
According to the New York Times , quoting a Kiev official, Ukrainian intelligence services are behind the explosion.
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