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The attack, which also wounded dozens of people, came hours after Ukraine’s military attacked an oil depot deep inside Russia.
By Cassandra Vinograd and Oleksandr Chubko
Kyiv, Ukraine Reports
Russia bombed the city of Zaporizhzhia in southeastern Ukraine on Wednesday, at least other thirteen people said in southeast, killing dozens in a daily attack.
“There is nothing more cruel than launching aerial bombs on a city, knowing that ordinary civilians will suffer,” President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine wrote in a post on X that included video showing dead and wounded people lying on city streets as rescuers rushed to respond.
The local authorities said that more than 60 people were wounded in the attack, which the regional governor of Zaporizhzhia, Ivan Fedorov, noted “cynically struck the city in the middle of the day.” He shared graphic images on the Telegram messaging app that he said were from the scene, where medical teams and emergency workers were responding.
Slavko Khudiakov, a volunteer paramedic, was in the city by chance to recuperate between frontline rotations. He said that he raced to the scene of the explosion — blowing through red lights on the way.
“Possibly I would have arrived seven minutes after the strike,” said Khudiakov, 40, a telephone interview.
He said he treated a man “with a torn-off leg,” and before the night was over he had treated about 10 people with “heavy” injuries. At least four were missing limbs, he added, and others were wounded by shrapnel.
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