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Russian strike on Zaporizhzhia kills 10, including 1-year-old boy

by Kateryna Hodunova and Kateryna Denisova November 7, 2024 3:34 PM  (Updated: ) 2 min read
The aftermath of a Russian attack against Zaporizhzhia on Nov. 7, 2024. (Governor Ivan Fedorov/Telegram)
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Editor's note: The story is being updated.

Russian forces attacked the city of Zaporizhzhia on Nov. 7, killing 10 people, including a 1-year-old child, and injuring 41 others.

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 1-year-old boy was among those killed, Governor Ivan Fedorov said. A 4-month-old girl and two boys aged 5 and 15 are among the injured.

Emergency services completed search and rescue operations at around 1:30 p.m., removing the body of another man from the rubble. This brought the death toll from the attack to 10.

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.

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