Russian troops hit a rocket on an apartment building in Zaporizhzhya region: 4 people were killed (photo)

The Russian projectile hit a two -storey building in the Vilnius district, and 3 families lived in it. On the day earlier the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation fired the infrastructure of 20 settlements of the region. The Russian invaders launched 3 missiles on November 17 in one of the settlements of Zaporizhzhya region. The head of the Zaporizhzhya Regional Military Administration (OVA) Alexander Starukh reported on Telegram.

The rocket strike was applied one of the settlements in the Vilnius district of the region, the head of the region was informed. "Civil structures, including a two -storey residential building, were destroyed. People were under the rubble," Starukh wrote. According to preliminary data, two of them were killed, rescuers work at the place of arrival of the projectile. The Deputy Head of the Presidential Office of Ukraine Kirill Tymoshenko later announced an increase in the number of dead to 4 people.

"Due to night shelling, the Russians recorded direct hits in residential buildings. One of them lived 3 families, only about 10 people," he said. According to Zaporizhzhya Ova, Russian invaders fired on November 16, 20 settlements of the region. Rescuers evacuated 176 people, 25 of them children. "There have been 18 reports on the destruction of houses (apartments) of citizens and infrastructure objects as a result of shelling of Russian servicemen," the authorities said.

We will remind that on November 17 the Russian army continued massive missile strikes in Ukraine. The explosions were heard in Kiev, and in the region the air defense worked. The rocket strokes were also in the Dnieper and the Odessa region. After the explosions in the Dnieper, electricity and mobile interruptions began.