Kyiv, March 2. At least two people were killed this morning in a Russian missile attack on an apartment building in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhia, the secretary of the Zaporizhia city council reported today , Anatoly Kurtev, and the state emergency service.
The Russians “almost completely destroyed a five-story building. People are under the rubble. According to preliminary information, two people are dead,” Kurtev wrote on his Telegram account, indicating that there were people under the rubble. .
The state emergency service said the lifeless bodies of two people were pulled from the rubble.
So far, 11 people have been rescued and taken to hospital for examination, including a pregnant woman, and 20 people have been evacuated.
As a result of 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 are involved in search and rescue operations, the state emergency service added.
Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky said in his usual address to the people tonight that frontline cities and neighborhoods are under “Russian bombardment day and night”.
“This is deliberate terror. Nikopol and other communities in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Zaporiyia, Jershon and its region, the front part of Donbass, Kharkov and its region, the provinces of Sumi and Chernígov” are suffering these attacks, he said. EFE
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