Russia launched late-night air strikes on the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhya, damaging several high-rise apartment blocks and leaving at least 16 civilians wounded, including a 15-year-old boy, Ukrainian officials said on September 23.
The Ukrainian Interior Ministry said rescuers had evacuated residents from several damaged buildings.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
In the United States, Zelenskiy visited a Pennsylvania arms plant producing munitions critical for his country's war effort on September 22.
The Scranton plant is one of the few facilities in the United States that manufactures 155-mm artillery shells. Ukraine has consumed millions of rounds of the shells since the war began in February 2022.
The Ukrainian president is hoping to receive permission to fire U.S. long-range missiles deep into Russia to strike critical assets like airfields and arms depots critical for Moscow's war effort. Zelenskiy will also outline his plan for victory on the battlefield.
"This fall will determine the future of this war," he said in a post on X alongside his nightly video address.
In his video address, Zelenskiy said Ukraine was doing everything it could, by acquiring weapons and through diplomacy, "to consolidate our partners' support and force Russia into peace."