Russian glide bomb attack on Zaporizhzhia kills one, injures dozens

People walk away from heavy smoke at the site of a Russian airstrike in Zaporizhzhia. PIC/AFP

Russian planes dropped eight powerful glide bombs in a span of 90 minutes on residential districts of the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, killing one person and wounding dozens of others, regional chief Ivan Fedorov said on Monday.

The weapons are Soviet-era bombs retrofitted with guidance systems and can carry up to 3000 kg of explosives, leaving huge craters. Ukraine has no effective countermeasures against them.

Other large-scale damage of civilian areas of Ukraine has resulted from Russian ballistic missiles, and late on Sunday President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made yet another urgent plea to other countries to send Ukraine more US-made Patriot air defence systems.

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