Death toll from Russian missile attack on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia rises to six, say officials
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Four more people remain under the rubble after Russia attacked a clinic in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia with a missile strike on Dec 10.
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KYIV – The death toll from a Russian missile strike that destroyed a clinic
An additional 22 people were injured, Governor Ivan Fedorov said on his Telegram messaging channel.
“All emergency services of the city are working at the scene,” he said.
State Emergency Service of Ukraine said its rescuers were able to pull out two women overnight from underneath the ruins of the building.
Photos posted on the service’s Telegram channel showed rescuers and machinery working in piles of rubble from a collapsed building at night.
Russia regularly carries out air strikes on Zaporizhzhia and the surrounding region. On Dec 6, an attack on the city killed 10 people and wounded more than 20.
Both sides deny targeting civilians in their attacks, saying the aim of the strikes is to undermine infrastructure key to each other’s war efforts.
President Volodymyr Zelensky urged Ukraine’s allies on Dec 10 to provide 10 to 12 more Patriot air defence systems that he said would fully protect the country’s skies.
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, Ukraine has consistently asked its allies to supply more advanced air-defence systems. REUTERS
