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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 reports, Ukraine
Russia bombed the city of Zaporizhzhia in southeastern Ukraine on Wednesday, officials said, killing at least 13 people and wounding dozens in a brazen daytime 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 voluntary paramedic, was in the city among the frontline rotations. He said he ran to the explosion scene, blowing through red lighting accessories along the way.
“I arrived about seven minutes after the strike,” said Khudiakov, 40, in a telephone interview.
He said he had treated a boy “with a torn leg”, and before the end of the night, he had treated 10 other people suffering from “heavy” injuries. At least 4 members lacked members, he added and others were injured by bus explosions.
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