Russian airstrikes injure 14 people as apartment blocks hit in Zaporizhzhia

Regional police say a 17-year-old boy was amongst the injured. 

Aerial bombs reportedly hit the city 13 times – with one of the strikes hitting and partially destroying a residential high-rise building. 

Ivan Fedorov, head of the Zaporizhzhia regional military administration, said three districts within the city had been damaged, one apartment building destroyed as well as at least 15 private houses. 

More people may still be trapped under the rubble, Federov added. 

Zaporizhzhia is located less than 50km away from the front lines. Russia has continued to target areas across the region, which is partially occupied by Moscow’s troops. 

The death toll has risen to 10 after Russia attacked a hospital in Ukraine’s city of Sumy, with another 22 injured. 

Russia reportedly hit the hospital twice – in attacks around 45 minutes apart. Most of the fatalities occurred during the second strike, which hit as emergency services arrived at the scene and as patients evacuated. 

Barrage of Ukrainian drones fired at Russia

More than 100 Ukrainian drones were shot down over Russia on Sunday, officials said, sparking a wildfire and setting an apartment block alight in one of the largest barrages seen over Russian skies since Moscow invaded Ukraine in February 2022.

Russia’s Ministry of Defence reported that it had shot down 125 drones overnight across seven regions. The southwestern region of Volgograd came under particularly heavy fire, with 67 Ukrainian drones reportedly downed by Russian air defenses.

Seventeen drones were also seen over Russia’s Voronezh region, where falling debris damaged an apartment block and a private home, said local governor Aleksandr Gusev. Images on social media showed flames rising from the windows of the top floor of a high-rise building. No casualties were reported.

A further 18 drones were reported over Russia’s Rostov region, where falling debris sparked a wildfire, said Gov. Vasily Golubev.

He said that the fire did not pose a threat to populated areas, but that emergency services were fighting to extinguish the blaze, which had engulfed 20 hectares of forest.