A Russian missile attack on the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia killed at least 13 civilians, prompting a Ukrainian counter-strike on a Russian fuel depot. Russian troops targeted residential buildings with glide bombs, while Ukraine claimed responsibility for a drone attack on a fuel storage facility near Engels, Russia.
In this photo taken on Jan. 2, 2025 and provided by Ukraine 's 24th Mechanised Brigade press service on Monday, Jan. 6, 2025, servicemen have a short rest in a shelter on the front line near Chasiv Yar town, in Donetsk region, Ukraine . (Oleg Petrasiuk/ Ukraine 's 24th Mechanised Brigade via AP)A Russia n missile attack on the southern Ukraine city of Zaporizhzhia killed at least 13 civilians and injured dozens Wednesday, officials said.
Footage posted on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's Telegram channel showed civilians lying in a city street littered with debris. They were being treated by emergency services. Zelenskyy and regional Gov. Ivan Fedorov said the attack killed at least 13 civilians. Minutes before the attack, Fedorov had warned of a threat of high-speed missiles and glide bombs being fired at the Zaporizhzhia region.Russian troops started launching glide bombs at Zaporizhzhia in the middle of the afternoon, and at least two bombs struck residential buildings in the city, Fedorov said.'There is nothing more brutal than aerial bombing of a city, knowing that ordinary civilians will suffer,' Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram. Earlier Wednesday, the Ukrainian military said Wednesday that it struck a fuel storage depot deep inside Russia, causing a huge blaze at the facility that supplies an important Russian air base. Russian officials acknowledged a major drone attack in the area, and said that authorities had set up an emergency command center to fight the fire. Ukraine's General Staff said that the assault hit the storage facility near Engels, in Russia's Saratov region, about 600 kilometers (370 miles) east of the Ukrainian border. The depot supplied a nearby airfield used by aircraft that launch missiles across the border into Ukraine, a statement on Facebook sai
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