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Zaporizhzhia Strike Deepens Ukraine’s Civilian Toll as Russia Hits Homes and Industry

At least six people were killed and around 19–20 injured in an overnight Russian strike on Zaporizhzhia that damaged apartment blocks, industrial sites, and infrastructure in the southern Ukrainian city. The attack, alongside fresh hits on Kyiv warehouses and a children’s hospital campus, shows how urban civilians and industrial workers are again in the blast radius of a grinding air war.

Russia’s latest wave of strikes on Ukrainian cities left apartment residents, industrial workers, and hospital staff once again in the path of the war, as missiles and bombs killed at least six people in Zaporizhzhia and ignited warehouses in Kyiv in the early hours of 11 August. The attacks cut across the full spectrum of Ukraine’s urban life: homes, factories, logistics facilities, and even the grounds of a children’s hospital. Regional officials in Zaporizhzhia reported that between five and six people were killed, with 19 to 20 others injured, after what they described as a combined missile and bomb attack on the regional capital. The strike damaged four multi-story residential…

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