At least three dead left a Russian shelling of a civilian building in Zaporizhzhia

At least three people died early Thursday morning after a Russian bombardment against a civilian building in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhiain the southeast of the country, as reported by the secretary of the city council, Anatoly Kurtev, and the state emergency service.

Russians “They almost completely destroyed a five-story building. People are under the rubble. According to initial information, two people diedKurtev wrote on his Telegram account, before a third victim was confirmed.

The state emergency service said the lifeless bodies of three people had been pulled from the rubble.

Until 11 people were rescued and hospitalized for examination.between them a pregnant woman and 20 other people were evacuated.

Following the attack,floors 5 to 1 of the same entrance of a residential building were destroyed“, he explained.

A total of 90 people, including three psychologists, and 24 units participated in search and rescue operations, the state emergency service added.

ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenskyclaimed that frontline towns and neighborhoods are under “Russian bombardment day and night”.

“This is deliberate terror. Nikopol and other communities in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Zaporizhzhia, Khersonthe frontline part of Donbass, Kharkiv, Sumi and Chernigov provinces” are suffering from these attacks, Zelensky added.

For his part, the governor of the Ukrainian city of Poltava, Dimitro Luninreported this Wednesday a series of missile attacks I’m talking to you Russian Armed Forces against the territory and which have impacted critical and civilian infrastructures.

“The enemy launched a missile attack against critical infrastructure and civilians in the Kremenchuk district,” denounced the governor of Poltava, a region located in central-eastern Ukraine, bordering with Kharkov.

Regional authorities said they were gathering information on potential victims and the extent of destruction caused for this new offensive attributed to Russian troops.

This new bombardment comes on a day when the Ukrainian side reported the presence of Iranian-made drones, launched by Russia and whose objective would be precisely critical installations.

Meanwhile, the adviser to the Ukrainian presidency, Mijailo Podoliakdenounced that there are still important european companies that they continue to operate on Russian territory and that, with their taxes, They finance the warfor which they should be punished.

Podoliak directly pointed out Raiffeisen Bankthe Russian subsidiary of the Austrian bank Raiffeisen banking group; the German multinational Metro; or the French group Auchandepending on the agency inquire.

“By paying taxes to Russia, they are in fact financing the war as such (…). And it looks, to say the least, a little strange. So, of course, there are a lot more companies that have to impose sanctions,” Podoliak said.

In this sense, the main adviser to the Ukrainian presidency regretted that there are “certain forces” in Europe which “after all” would like “Russia to remain a partner in the market”.

Podoliak pointed out that in order to end the war in Ukraine, it is necessary not only to supply the country with weapons, but also to limit economic contributions to Russia as much as possible, thereby avoiding taxes.

“It’s obvious. You cannot give arms to Ukraine with one hand and support the financing of the Russian army through tax systems with the other. We need to talk about it directly, clearly name the companies that pay taxes in Russia and on which sanctions should be imposed,” he said.

(With information from EFE and Europa Press)

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