A separate Russian air attack struck residential areas of Zaporizhzhia on Saturday, Oct. 10, and Ukrainian authorities gave different casualty totals by Sunday. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported 23 deaths, including four children, while a Sunday Euronews account put the toll at 17, including three children. Police said five guided aerial bombs hit the southeastern city, two of them striking apartment blocks.
Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said a bomb destroyed the entrance section of a residential building and damaged other buildings and private homes. Rescue crews cleared rubble and searched for people after the attack.
Casualty reports varied as rescue work continued
Early Saturday, local authorities reported eight people killed, including three children, and 16 injured, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported. Later, Euronews cited the State Emergency Service for a toll of at least 20 dead, including three children, and 16 injured.
On Sunday, a Euronews update reported at least 17 people dead, including three children, and at least 18 injured. The Associated Press reported Zelenskyy’s higher figure of 23 dead, including four children, and more than 30 wounded; regional governor Ivan Fedorov said eight people remained hospitalized.
The reported death tolls were 17, 20 or 23, with three or four children among those killed. Injury figures ranged from 16 to more than 30. The AP reported that search-and-rescue operations had ended by Sunday.
Fedorov described medical staff’s response in a Telegram post. “Medical staff are doing everything they can to help everyone,” he wrote, as Euronews reported.
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Police and emergency workers described damage to homes
Police said Russian forces struck residential parts of Zaporizhzhia with five guided aerial bombs. Two hit apartment blocks, according to the police account. The State Emergency Service described damage to the entrance section of a residential building, other buildings and private homes.
Those accounts describe impacts on homes and apartment buildings; the reported deaths include children. Emergency crews worked through rubble and searched for people after the strike, with the rescue operation ending by Sunday, the AP reported.
The attack followed Russian strikes in Donetsk region on Thursday, Oct. 8. The earlier Kramatorsk strike was a separate event. Regional governor Vadym Filashkin reported 35 people killed and 24 injured across Donetsk region, including 32 deaths in Kramatorsk and three in Bilenke, in a Euronews account.
Zaporizhzhia attack came during a wider aerial war
The two attacks came as Russia and Ukraine continued a long-range aerial war alongside largely deadlocked front lines. The AP described the conflict as more than four and a half years into Russia’s full-scale invasion. In Zaporizhzhia, Ukrainian police described guided bombs hitting residential areas, while emergency officials reported damage to homes and apartment buildings.
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