Death toll in strike on Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia rises to 11: officials
Mar 05, 2023
Zaporizhzhia[Ukraine], March 5: The death toll from a Russian missile strike that hit an apartment block in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia rose to 11 on Saturday after a woman's body was found in the debris, the state emergency service said.
One child was among those killed in Thursday's early-morning strike on the five-storey residential building, the service said in a post on the Telegram messaging app.
Officials from the regional administration said in another post that a Russian S-300 missile had hit the building.
In a post on Telegram shortly after the strike, Ukrainian President VolodymyrZelenskiy promised to hold Russia accountable.
Source: Fijian Broadcasting Corporation
