17 Killed After Fresh Missile Strike On Key Ukraine Town: Report

An overnight Russian missile strike killed 17 people in Zaporizhzhia, local authorities said on Sunday, in the latest deadly attack to hit the southern Ukrainian city.

A Russian missile strike killed 17 people in Zaporizhzhya, local authorities said on Sunday, in the latest deadly attack on the southern Ukrainian city that President Volodymyr Zelensky called "absolute evil".

“After the night missile attack on Zaporozhye, at least 20 houses and about 50 multi-storey buildings were destroyed.

17 people have died so far,” Anatoly Kortev, Secretary of the Zaporizhzhya City Council, wrote on a telegram.

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He added that four educational institutions were also damaged.

Volodymyr Zelensky and regional official Oleksandr Staruch gave a lower death toll of 12,

The latter said that more victims may be under the rubble as the search and rescue operation begins.

Ukrainian authorities announced on Saturday that at least 17 people, including a child, were killed when seven Russian missiles landed on Zaporizhia before dawn Thursday.

Zaporizhzhia again.

Merciless blows on peaceful people once again.

"In apartment buildings, only at midnight," President Zelensky said in a Telegram of Sunday's attack, adding that 49 people, including six children, were in hospital.

Absolute meanness. Absolute evil. Savages and terrorists.

Who gave this order to everyone who carried out this order. They will bear the responsibility. surely. Before the law and before the people.

Zaporizhia was located near the front line where Kyiv forces were carrying out a large-scale counterattack against the Russian forces.

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The controlled industrial city is located in the Zaporizhia region of the same name, and is also home to the Russian-occupied nuclear reactor that was the site of a heavy bombing.

Moscow claims to have annexed the area, although its forces do not control all of it.

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