At least three people were killed and six others injured during a night-time strike at a residential building in Zaporizhia in southern Ukraine, local authorities said on Thursday.
In a statement, Ukrainian police said a Russian missile “according to preliminary information from an S-300 battery” destroyed more than 10 apartments in this building “where people were sleeping peacefully”.
“During the search, six injured people were recovered from the rubble, as well as the bodies of three people,” the source said.
Images released by Ukraine’s emergency services show residents being evacuated amid the rubble, assisted by firefighters.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy denounced an act of a “terrorist state that wants to make our every day a day of terror”.
“But evil will not prevail in our country. We will evict all inmates and they will be responsible for everything,” he added on Telegram.
This strike is reminiscent of a Russian bombardment in mid-January on a residential building in Dnipro, a large city in central-eastern Ukraine that killed 46 people.