A 50‑year‑old man and his 11‑year‑old daughter were killed when Russian missiles struck a house in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, officials said on Sunday. The attack is the latest strike on civilian infrastructure as Moscow’s invasion enters its second year.
“The enemy carried out a missile attack on Zaporizhzhia and killed another Ukrainian family,” State Emergency Service head Sergiy Kruk wrote on social media. According to Anatoliy Kurtiev, head of the Zaporizhzhia City Council, the girl died in an ambulance. Rescue workers pulled the girl’s 46‑year‑old mother alive from under the rubble. Her elder daughter was not at home when the Russians struck at night, the State Emergency Service added.
Kurtiev said two Russian missiles hit a residential building, damaging windows and roofs of dozens of neighboring houses. The Zaporizhzhia region is one of four Ukrainian provinces that Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed to have annexed last year. (AFP)
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