Ukraine reported on Tuesday that “massive” Russian airstrikes on the southern city of Zaporizhzhia resulted in one man’s death and six injuries, including two children.
According to the state emergency service, the regional capital was the target of several “massive air strikes” that transpired over two hours on Monday night around 9:00 pm.
“One man died and another six people were injured including a 13-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy as a result of Russian attacks on Zaporizhzhia,” the regional governor Ivan Fedorov wrote on Telegram.
The governor claimed that residential structures and an infrastructure facility were set on fire by airstrikes and drones.
Regina Kharchenko, a municipal official, reported on Telegram that 24 individual homes and 74 apartment blocks in different parts of the city had sustained damage.
The air force of Ukraine reported on social media that during the course of the night, air defenses had shot down 66 assault drones and lost 13 more to radar. It said that 81 Russian drones had been fired, with the majority of them aimed at northern and central Ukraine.
According to the air force, Russia also fired four missiles.
Drone damage to electricity infrastructure in the central Poltava area of Ukraine cut off supplies to 20 communities, according to regional authorities.
In Russia, the defence ministry said its forces had downed 13 Ukrainian drones over border regions overnight and on Tuesday morning.
Two civilians were wounded by Ukrainian shelling early Tuesday in the city of Gorlivka in the Russian-occupied part of the eastern Donetsk region, the Russian-appointed mayor said.
