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Russian Bombs Hit Zaporizhzhia, Killing Four
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In Short: Russian guided bombs struck a residential building in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, killing four people and injuring four others.
Russian guided bombs, known by the Russian acronym KAB, hit a residential apartment block in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on April 3, killing four residents and injuring four others, according to regional officials.
The attack partially destroyed one entrance to the apartment building, causing sections of the structure to collapse to the second floor, said Mykhailo Semikin, acting head of the Zaporizhzhia Oblast Military Administration.
Rescue teams pulled two residents, a woman and a man, from beneath the rubble as emergency crews continued searching the damaged building.
In a separate incident, Russian forces launched ballistic missiles at Zaporizhzhia overnight on April 3, according to Zaporizhzhia Oblast Military Administration head Ivan Fedorov, as cited by RBC Ukraine.
The strikes on Zaporizhzhia came amid continued Russian attacks on the city and surrounding areas, where Moscow has increasingly used drones and guided aerial bombs against the city and its infrastructure.
On the evening of April 2, Zaporizhzhia had already been struck, with monitoring channels reporting a separate ballistic strike on Pavlohrad in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
Russian forces have occupied parts of Zaporizhzhia Oblast since launching its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, while the regional capital remains under Ukrainian control.
In a statement on Truth Social, U.S. President Donald Trump said Russia would supply over 300,000 tons of diesel fuel to the American and global marketplace, with additional supplies of 500,000 tons in November and 1,000,000 tons thereafter.
Meanwhile, Russian forces are continuing their attacks on different Ukrainian regions along the 1200-kilometre frontline of the war, killing at least five people.
Russian drones struck the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on Monday, a day after Ukrainian forces fired more than 1000 drones at Russia, officials said.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday that Ukraine “will have to pay a price for the actions that have taken place in recent months,” pointing to Ukrainian attacks, including during Russia’s parliamentary elections.
What's confirmed
- The attack partially destroyed one entrance to the apartment building, causing sections of the structure to collapse to the second floor, according to Mykhailo Semikin, acting head of the Zaporizhzhia Oblast Military Administration.
- "One more person may still be under the rubble," Semikin said in an update at approximately 7:05 a.m. local time.
What's still developing
- In 2023, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Putin and another Russian official, Maria Lvova-Belova, for "unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation."
- “The Russians are targeting civilians. For them, a bus with passengers is an attractive target precisely because one hit can kill as many people as possible,” Filashkin said.
- “ Russia comes to the Ukrainian land with death. She hits our cities, kills our people and multiplies her crimes every day,” Filashkin said.
- The Russian bombardment of Zaporizhzhia late on Sunday hit apartment blocks, a university and a shopping mall and wounded five people, Zelenskiy said on Monday.
- REUTERS/Thomas Peter Russian attacks killed at least seven people and wounded more than 50 across Ukraine on Monday, officials said, striking apartment buildings, offices, data centers and a National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine building in central Kyiv in a daytime assault.
- The First Italian English Digital Daily in the US A man walks past burned-out cars and a residential building that went up in flames during a recent Russian strike are scattered in a residential area, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, July 30, 2026.
- "Windows shattered at the hospital. Windows and doors broken across administrative buildings, homes, and apartments. Our museum is no more," Semenikhin wrote on Telegram.
- In between, Russia hit homes, a museum, and critical infrastructure in Sumy, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Mykolaiv oblasts.