Russian glide bombs kill 17 in Zaporizhzhia, including three children

Russian guided aerial bombs struck the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia early on Saturday, 10 October, killing at least 17 civilians, including three children, and wounding 16, regional officials said, according to Kyiv Post.

The attack

• The bombs (KABs) hit around 4:48 a.m. local time in the Shevchenkivskyi and Voznesenivskyi districts.
• At least 26 residential buildings were damaged, including 23 apartment blocks and three private houses; a five-storey building took a direct hit.
• The toll rose through the morning as rescuers searched the rubble, according to acting regional governor Mykhailo Semikin and regional official Ivan Fedorov.

It was the second morning in a row of glide-bomb attacks on the city: on Friday six bombs killed one man and injured 23 people, regional authorities said.

Political context

President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia had “thanked” the world for the easing of sanctions on its diesel exports — announced by President Trump a day earlier — by dropping bombs on apartment buildings. He said 13 Ukrainian regions were hit overnight and that Russia “perceives any easing of pressure” as permission to continue the war. Zelensky also defended Ukraine’s long-range strikes on Russian refineries, telling the BBC on Friday that Ukraine would not hit them if Russia stopped destroying Ukrainian energy infrastructure.