Local authorities reported on Wednesday that at least three people were killed in Russian rocket attacks on the city of Zaporizhia and the Dnepropetrovsk region overnight.
“Tonight (Wednesday) between 1:33 a.m. and 1:48 a.m. (12:33 a.m. to 12:48 a.m. Paris time),” Russia fired “six missiles at the city of Zaporizhzhia,” said the governor of that southern region, Yuriï Malachko, wrote on Telegram. According to Ukrainian defense information, two people were killed and five were injured. According to police, one of the rockets hit a building. Three people could still be under the rubble, a spokeswoman for the rescuers, Julia Barycheva, told AFP. According to her, the 3rd, 4th and 5th floors were largely destroyed. According to regional governor Yuri Malachko, it was a Russian S-300 missile that hit the building.
A little further north, the Dnipropetrovsk region was also bombed. According to Ukrainian authorities, houses in the village of Obukhiva were destroyed. According to Interior Minister Igor Klymenko, a 31-year-old woman was killed and four people were injured.
In addition, the governor of the Kherson region accused Russia of killing a person in a village in the oblast following an airstrike, the Kyiv Independent reported. A civilian was also killed and three others injured in Ukraine’s Dnipro region on Wednesday, according to the Russian strike cited by the Guardian. According to him, six houses were damaged.