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Russia shoots humanitarian convoy in Zaporizhzhia, at least 30 victims

Russia shoots humanitarian convoy in Zaporizhzhia, at least 30 victims

Ukrainian officials say at least 30 people have been killed and 88 wounded in an attack by Russian forces on a civilian convoy leaving the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia.

"The enemy launched a rocket attack on a civilian humanitarian convoy on the way out of Zaporizhzhia," Oleksandr Starukh, head of the Zaporizhzhia regional military administration, said on Telegram:

"People were queuing up to leave for the temporarily occupied territory, to pick up their relatives, to offer aid."

Among the dead are an 11-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy, according to Ihor Klymenko, head of Ukraine's National Police.

Ivan Fedorov, mayor of the occupied city of Melitopol, said on Telegram: "People leave Zaporizhzhia every day to support their relatives, provide vital medicines to the civilian population and return.

Kyrylo Tymoshenko, the deputy head of the president's office, says that a total of 16 rockets were fired by Russian forces in the area where the civilian convoy was hit.

Russian forces frequently use S-300 missiles in the conflict in Ukraine.


 

 

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