At least 13 civilians were injured, including a 15-year-old boy, late on Sunday as a result of Russia’s air strikes on the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, Ukrainian officials said on Monday.

Rescuers evacuated residents from several damaged apartment buildings, Ukraine’s Interior Ministry said on the Telegram messaging app. The ministry said according to preliminary information, Russia used its KAB guided aerial bombs to strike Zaporizhzhia.

Both sides deny targeting civilians in their attacks, but thousands of civilians have been killed – the vast majority of them Ukrainians – in the war that Moscow launched with a full-scale invasion in February 2022.

Zaporizhzhia Governor Ivan Fedorov said on Telegram that in total, Russia conducted 363 air and ground strikes in the past day on 12 settlements in the broader Zaporizhzhia region of which the Zaporizhzhia city is the administrative centre.

Ukraine’s emergency services posted a video on its Facebook page showing rescuers trying to remove debris and unblock an entry to an apartment and attending to wounded people at night in front of a damaged residential building.

(Reuters)