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Russian attack kills 12 in Ukraine after US sanctions move

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 10 Oct, 13:24 · Archive

Russian strikes killed at least 12 people, including three children, in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on Saturday.

Twelve people, including three children, were killed when Russian forces struck residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia, an industrial city whose outskirts lie less than 30 kilometres from the front line. Among those killed was a six-year-old girl whose apartment block was reduced to rubble. Fourteen others were wounded in the attack, which local governor Mykhailo Semikin said hit several locations simultaneously in the early hours of Saturday.

Rescuers pulled residents from crumbled masonry, including a man whose leg was trapped in the rubble. The strikes used glide bombs dropped on residential areas. The attack came a day after US President Donald Trump announced a deal to lift sanctions on Russian diesel exports.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the timing was not coincidental, stating: 'Today, Russia said thank you for the lifting of sanctions on diesel exports by dropping five glide bombs on residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia.' He called it some of his sharpest criticism yet of the White House. Zaporizhzhia, with a pre-war population of over 700,000, has been a regular target of Russian bombardment with strikes intensifying in recent months. Nearly 80 civilians were killed in Russian strikes across Ukraine over two days earlier this week.

Russian attack kills 12 in Ukraine after US sanctions move
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In this story: Zaporizhzhia · Ukraine · Volodymyr Zelenskiy · Donald Trump · Russia · Mykhailo Semikin

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