Death toll in Russia’s missile strike on Zaporizhzhia rises to three

The number of victims of Russia’s missile strike on Zaporizhzhia has risen to three, nine more people are injured, one of them is a child, Ukraine’s national emergency service reported.

Rescue teams extinguished a fire in a church outhouse building, conducted emergency rescue operations in an affected shop, and checked other damaged buildings nearby.

The service’s psychologists provided care for 17 injured people.

Russian forces launched the attack on Zaporizhzhia late on 9 August. Preliminary reports suggest that the strike was carried out with an Iskander missile. The attack damaged a Peter and Paul church and a shop. The strike on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia damaged 13 apartment buildings and more than 400 flats, head of the Zaporizhzhia city council Anatoly Kurtev reported.