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Russian attack on Zaporizhzhia kills 3, injures 16

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Russian attack on Zaporizhzhia kills 3, injures 16
First responders work at the site of Russian strike on the city of Zaporizhzhia on March 21. (State Emergency Service)

Russia attacked the city of Zaporizhzhia on the evening of March 21, killing three people, including a 17-year-old girl, regional governor Ivan Fedorov reported.

Earlier reports indicated the child to be 14-year-old.

At least 16 people were injured in the strike, which also damaged several apartment buildings in the city. A number of high-rises and homes caught fire following the attack.

The rescue operation concluded at around 1:00 a.m. local time. This is the second attack on Zaporizhzhia in the past 24 hours. Russia attacked the outskirts of the city with guided aerial bombs on the evening of March 20, injuring six people, including a four-year-old boy.

Zaporizhzhia, home to approximately 710,000 residents before Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022, is frequently targeted by Russian forces.

Zaporizhzhia Oblast is also home to the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, which has been under Russian occupation since 2022 and has featured prominently in recent peace talks between Ukraine and the U.S.

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Olena Goncharova

Head of North America desk

Olena Goncharova is the Head of North America desk at The Kyiv Independent, where she has previously worked as a development manager and Canadian correspondent. She first joined the Kyiv Post, Ukraine's oldest English-language newspaper, as a staff writer in January 2012 and became the newspaper’s Canadian correspondent in June 2018. She is based in Edmonton, Alberta. Olena has a master’s degree in publishing and editing from the Institute of Journalism in Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv. Olena was a 2016 Alfred Friendly Press Partners fellow who worked for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for six months. The program is administered by the University of Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia.

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