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STORY: :: Residents survey the damage after Ukraine says several civilians are injured in Russian air strikes on Zaporizhzhia

:: Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine

:: September 23, 2024

:: We just went to bed, both me and my son. All of a sudden the explosion happened. All windows in our flat were blown off, including the balcony window frame. One window landed on my son, he’s under severe stress, he’s shaken, and he has cuts on his head from the shattered glass."

Zaporizhzhia Governor Ivan Fedorov said on the Telegram messaging app that Russia dealt at least seven air strikes to the city and the surrounding district, damaging 13 apartment buildings, educational institutions, cars, garages and private residences.

Fedorov said on Telegram that in total, Russia conducted 363 air and ground strikes in the past day on 12 settlements in the broader Zaporizhzhia region of which the Zaporizhzhia city is the administrative center.

Both sides deny targeting civilians in their attacks, but thousands of civilians have been killed - the vast majority of them Ukrainians - in the war that Moscow launched with a full-scale invasion in February 2022.