2022 Zaporizhzhia residential building airstrike

Zaporizhzhia residential building airstrike
Part of Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
A residential building destroyed by a Russian airstrike
A residential building in Zaporizhzhia following the airstrike
LocationZaporizhzhia, Ukraine
Date9 October 2022 (2022-10-09)
3 a.m. Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+3:00)
Attack type
Missile strike
Deaths13
Injured89
Perpetrators Russian Armed Forces

The Zaporizhzhia residential building airstrike occurred in the early morning of 9 October 2022. The missile attack by the Russian Armed Forces, killed at least 13 people and injured more than 89 others.[1][2][3]

The airstrike, like others in Kyiv, Lviv, Dnipro, Mykolaiv and Zhytomyr, took place the day after an explosion damaged large parts of the Crimean Bridge, which Russian president Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of carrying out, and called it an "act of terrorism."

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