Russian strikes kill one, injure seven across Zaporizhzhia

Russian missiles and FPV drones struck residential areas of Zaporizhzhia overnight into Friday, 9 October, killing one man, aged 50, and injuring seven people, including a child, officials said. Mykhailo Semikin, acting head of the Zaporizhzhia regional military administration, reported the attack and the rising casualty figures through the morning in a series of posts on his official Telegram channel.

Ukraine's air force had warned in the early hours of Friday morning that Russia had launched guided bombs toward the city. Semikin said one strike hit close to a high-rise residential building, initially reporting a single person wounded, then confirming at 6:04am that a man had been killed. Videos shared online showed the block with blown-out windows and cars burning in the street outside.

By 6:49am, Fedorov said the strike near the main building had killed the 50-year-old man and left a woman and a man with what he described as light injuries. Russian forces struck the city six times in total that morning, hitting residential areas near several high-rise buildings and damaging facades and windows, Fedorov said. One of the strikes landed near a facility used for out-of-school education, Semikin said.

By 7:20am, Fedorov said the number of injured across the city had climbed to seven, including a child. Emergency crews were providing aid to those hurt, he said.

The attack followed a separate strike a day earlier, on 8 October, when a Russian FPV drone hit the Zaporizhzhia regional council building, striking the coat of arms on its facade directly. The impact caused smoke but no fire, and no one was reported hurt, according to NV and Censor.net.