Russia strikes bridge over Dnipro River in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia, injuring five, including Red Cross workers

Source: Mykhailo Semikin

Russian forces struck one of the bridges over the Dnipro River in Zaporizhzhia overnight on October 6, said Mykhailo Semikin, head of the Zaporizhzhia regional military administration.

Traffic on the damaged bridge was shut down. Five people were injured in the strike, including two Red Cross staff members.

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Ukraine’s State Emergency Service (SES) also reported that a drone struck a nine-story residential building in Zaporizhzhia during a Russian attack on the evening of October 5. An apartment on the fifth floor and a balcony on the sixth floor caught fire, and two people were injured.

In Kyiv, the roof of an educational institution in the Obolon district caught fire after a Russian strike overnight on October 6. No one was injured.

Since the start of October, Russian forces have repeatedly struck some of Kyiv’s most important transportation arteries: the bridges spanning the Dnipro River. The Northern and Southern bridges have been hit several times. The city has nine bridges over the Dnipro in total, none of which had previously come under attack.

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