At least two people have died and five are missing in attacks in the city of Zaporizhia in southeastern Ukraine, the region’s governor said on Thursday, accusing Russia of being behind the shooting.
The Ukrainian-controlled city is in the eponymous Zaporizhia region, which Moscow has annexed, although it does not control it entirely.
“One woman died, another died in an ambulance,” Ukrainian regional governor Oleksandre Staroukh said on social media.
At least five people are still trapped under the rubble, he added, adding that rescue operations are still ongoing.
According to the governor, seven attacks by Russian forces were aimed at “high-rise buildings”.
Last week, at least 30 people were killed in a strike on a column of civilian vehicles near the town of Zaporizhia, not far from a border crossing between the Ukrainian-controlled part of the region and that occupied by the Russian army.
Russians and Ukrainians blamed each other for this bombing.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday completed the annexation of four Ukrainian regions (Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia), but the Kremlin has not yet confirmed which geographic areas of those regions will be annexed.
The Ukrainian presidency said on Thursday that 14 people had been killed in attacks in the Donetsk region in the past 24 hours.