(Updated: )
Editor's note: The story is being updated.
Russian forces attacked the city of Zaporizhzhia on Nov. 7, killing four people and injuring at least 18 others, State Emergency Service reported.
Russia struck Zaporizhzhia five times using guided aerial bombs. The attack partially destroyed an apartment building, houses and damaged a cancer hospital, according to the statement.
A four-month-old girl and two boys aged one and 10 are among the injured, Governor Ivan Fedorov said.
The number of casualties can increase as the search and rescue operation is ongoing.
Following the attack, President Volodymyr Zelensky urged Kyiv's partners to provide Ukraine with more air defense systems and to lift restrictions on strikes with Western long-range weapons on targets inside Russia.
"Each such Russian strike not only kills people and destroys lives, but also destroys the meaning of any words about the lack of conversations with Russia, phone calls to the Kremlin," he added.
Zaporizhzhia, the regional center of the partially occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast, is a common target of Russian attacks. Some 710,000 residents lived in the city before the outbreak of the full-scale invasion in 2022.
A Russian strike against Zaporizhzhia on Nov. 5 killed six and injured 23 people.
The Kyiv Independent news desk
