Russian attack kills 17 people in Zaporizhia, according to Ukraine | Globalism

According to the Ukrainian authorities, the attack could have started from Russia.

The attack comes a day after the explosion of the only bridge linking Russia to Ukraine’s Crimea. So far, no one has claimed responsibility for the damage to the strategic path of the Russians.

According to the Associated Press, the missiles that hit Zaporizhia during the night damaged at least 20 homes and 50 apartment buildings. At least 40 people have also been hospitalized.

The explosions also partially destroyed the building. The Ukrainian military confirmed the attack, citing dozens of deaths.

“Again, Zaporizhzhia. Cruel attacks on civilians, targeting of apartment buildings, in the middle of the night,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a post on social media.

Although Zaporizhia is still under Ukrainian control, it is the capital of a region of the same name that was officially established by Russian President Vladimir Putin this week (see summary below.

• Satellite images show the destruction of a bridge between Russia and Crimea
• Russia tightens security on a symbolic bridge targeted by an explosion in Crimea

• war in Ukraine An escalation in recent weeks, as the Ukrainians took back the areas occupied by the Russians. (Watch the video below).
• Western countries provided military and strategic aid to Kyiv.
• In response, on September 21, the Russian President Russian President Vladimir PutinAnd the He announced that 300,000 reserve soldiers would be called up to fight in the war.
• Days later, Moscow organized a referendum that questioned Ukrainian citizens in the Russian-occupied regions — Kherson, Zaporizhia, Luhansk and Donetsk — about whether they wanted to secede from Ukraine and join Russia.
• Putin declared victory in public consultation and signed, on September 30, Annexation of the four landswhich is equivalent to 15% of the Ukrainian territory.
• The United Nations and the international community do not recognize the annexation.
• Even with the annexation announced by the Russians, the Ukrainians retake the territories and lead the Russian soldiers to flee.
• Last Saturday (8), the only bridge linking Russia to Ukraine’s Crimea, which Moscow annexed in 2014, was hit by explosions. Moscow treats the case as an incident. The road is very important for Russian military transport.

Areas retaken by Ukraine

This Saturday (8), Moscow also changed the commander of the Russian forces fighting in Ukraine. Army General Sergei Sorovikin was appointed commander of the cluster.

The decision to change leadership comes after a series of Ukrainian attacks in recent weeks.

Zelensky claims that in his latest counterattack, Its army began at the end of September, occupying about 2,500 square kilometers of land.

The Russian forces also lost 500 square kilometers in the Kherson region in southern Ukraine, It narrowly escaped a siege at Lyman, a major logistical center currently controlled by the Ukrainians.