Europe 1 with AFP 9:19 a.m., March 2, 2023, modified at 9:19 a.m., March 2, 2023

On the 371st day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, at least three people were killed and six others injured in an overnight strike on an apartment building in Zaporizhia, southern Ukraine, authorities said on Thursday. local.

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At least three people were killed and six others injured in an overnight strike on an apartment building in Zaporizhia, southern Ukraine, local authorities said Thursday.

In a statement, Ukrainian police said a Russian missile, "according to preliminary information from an S-300 battery", had destroyed more than 10 apartments in this building "where people were sleeping peacefully".

"During the search operations, six injured people were taken out of the rubble, as well as the bodies of three people," said the source.

Information to remember:

  • At least three people were killed and six others injured in an overnight strike on a residential building in Zaporizhia.

  • Ukraine congratulated itself on Wednesday for having "defeated the terror of winter", marked by intense Russian bombardments which plunged millions of people into the cold.

Residents evacuated after night strike in Zaporizhia

Images, published by the Ukrainian emergency services, show residents being evacuated in the middle of the rubble, helped by firefighters.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced an act of a “terrorist state which wants to make each of our days a day of terror”.

"But evil will not prevail in our land. We will drive out all the occupants and they will answer for everything," he added, on Telegram.

This strike recalls a Russian bombardment in mid-January against an apartment building in Dnipro, a large city in central eastern Ukraine, which left 46 dead.

Ukraine has 'conquered winter terror'

Ukraine congratulated itself on Wednesday for having "defeated the winter terror", marked by intense Russian bombardments which plunged millions of people into the cold, Russia announcing for its part a "massive" attack of drones in Crimea annexed.

The ten Ukrainian aircraft sent to this peninsula have all been neutralized, the Russian army said.

This is the second day in a row that Moscow has reported a drone attack.

"Winter is over. It was very difficult, every Ukrainian felt it," declared President Volodymyr Zelensky in the evening.

"But we managed to supply Ukraine with energy and heating."