The number of people injured in a late-night air strike on the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhya increased to 22, including two children, the State Emergency Services said on September 23.
The air strike also damaged several high-rise apartment blocks, and the Ukrainian Interior Ministry said rescuers had to evacuate residents.
"Two women remain in the hospital, their condition is estimated by doctors to be of moderate severity," the State Emergency Services said.
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News of the Russian strike on Zaporizhzhya comes a day after Ukrainian officials reported a similar Russian attack on residential high-rise apartments the city of Kharkiv in which 21 people were wounded.
A separate attack by the Russian military in Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region killed a 48-year-old woman and injured her husband, also 48, and two other people, authorities said.
Russia denies targeting civilians, but thousands of Ukrainians have died in such strikes since President Vladimir Putin launched the unprovoked, full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
The latest strike also comes with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in the United States to attend this week's UN General Assembly and to meet with world leaders, including President Joe Biden.
Zelenskiy emphasized the importance of global unity and called on nations to continue to support "joint efforts for a just and peaceful future," in his speech to the Summit of the Future at the UN.
"Putin has stolen a lot, but he will never steal the future of the world," Zelenskiy said.
The Ukrainian Interior Ministry said preliminary information indicated that Russia had used KAB guided glide bombs in the attack on Zaporizhzhya.
KAB bombs are a retrofitted Soviet weapon that the Russia military has used in eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian officials had said it had been used in the most recent attack in Kharkiv as well.
Zaporizhzhya Governor Ivan Fedorov said several residential buildings had been damaged by the blast wave and debris, sparking a fire.
He sent tents had been set up to help residents of the damaged buildings.
Fedorov said that in total, Russia conducted 363 air and ground strikes in the past day on 12 settlements in the broader Zaporizhzhya region.
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Ukrainian Civilians Injured As Russian Bombs Target Zaporizhzhya
Russia also launched two guided missiles and four attack drones targeting Ukraine overnight, the Ukrainian Air Force said on September 23.
Three of the drones were shot down over the northeastern Sumy region, it said.
The two missiles and one drone "did not reach their targets due to the active antiaircraft missile defense of the Defense Forces of Ukraine," the air force said.
Meanwhile, the Russian Foreign Ministry was quoted by Reuters as saying on September 23 that at least 31 civilians had been killed and 256 wounded in the Ukrainian incursion into Russia's Kursk region as of September 5.
Three civilians, including a child, were killed by Ukrainian shelling of a village in Russia's Belgorod border region, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on September 23.
The Belgorod region lies to the southeast of the Kursk region and has come under frequent cross-border shelling and drone attacks in the course of the war.