Kyiv: A Russian glide bomb slammed into a residential district in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, killing five people, officials said on Friday, as Moscow’s forces continued to hammer civilian areas of Ukraine.
The overnight attack, which also injured 10 people, including a teenage girl, occurred after details emerged of a US plan to end the war, nearly four years after Russia’s all-out invasion of its neighbour.
Ukrainian officials were weighing the proposals, and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he expected to talk to US President Donald Trump in the coming days.
The powerful glide bomb that hit Zaporizhzhia damaged some high-rise apartment blocks for the third time since
the war began and also wrecked a local market, according to the head of the regional military administration, Ivan Fedorov.
The brute force of glide bombs, a retrofitted Soviet weapon launched by Russian jets flying at high altitude, has for months laid waste to Ukraine’s front-line cities. Ukraine has no effective countermeasure against them.agencies