Russian rockets have struck residential buildings in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, killing at least one woman and leaving at least five trapped under rubble, a local official has said.
The strikes rained down in the city close to Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant on Thursday.
Governor Oleksandr Starukh wrote on his Telegram channel that many people were rescued from the multi-story buildings, including a three-year-old girl who was taken to a hospital for treatment.
It came hours after Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky said the country’s forces have retaken more settlements in Kherson, one of the partially Russian-occupied southern regions that Moscow claims to have annexed in illegal referendums.
With Russian forces retreating from front lines in the south and east, the Ukrainian president said Novovoskresenske, Novohryhorivka and Petropavlivka to the northeast of Kherson city had been “liberated”.
Elsewhere, a key city recently regained by Ukrainian forces is still littered with the bloated bodies of Russian soldiers. Lyman was an important logistics hub for Russia before its forces abandoned the city last Saturday.
