In Zaporozhye, 17 people were killed in an airstrike the day after US sanctions on Russian diesel were lifted

Early on the morning of Saturday, October 10, the Russian military attacked Zaporozhye with KABs, Ukrainian authorities said. According to the latest data, 17 people were killed, including three children, and 18 were injured (among them three children). Russia did not comment on the attack.

The attack occurred around five in the morning local time, the head of the regional defense council, Ivan Fedorov, wrote in a telegram. At least 26 residential buildings were damaged - 23 high-rise buildings and three private houses in the Shevchenkovsky and Voznesenovsky districts of Zaporozhye. Three houses were significantly damaged.

One of the bombs hit a five-story residential building, said the acting head of the Zaporozhye regional military administration, Mikhail Semikin. The entrance to the residential building was partially destroyed, and structures on the second floor collapsed.

Search and rescue efforts continued throughout the day; there may have been people under the rubble. At about 14:00 local time, rescuers managed to pull the woman out from under the rubble. By that time, the fate of six more people was unknown.

“Today Russia thanked for the lifting of sanctions on diesel exports by dropping five KABs on residential buildings in Zaporozhye,” Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky commented on the airstrike.

The day before, US President Donald Trump telephoned Vladimir Putin, and as a result of the call, announced the lifting of sanctions on Russian diesel fuel. The leaders of the two countries, Trump said, agreed to supply diesel to the United States and other countries.

At the same time, negotiations between the Ukrainian, European and American delegations took place in Miami. They were supposed to last two days, but, according to Radio Liberty correspondent Alex Raufoglu, they ended earlier than planned. “There won’t be a second day,” the journalist quoted his sources.