Missiles, drones strike Ukraine as leaders of China and Japan end rival summits
AP :
Ukraine’s president posted a video Wednesday showing what he said was a Russian missile slamming into an apartment building in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, after Moscow’s forces launched exploding drones that killed at least four people at a student dormitory near Kyiv before dawn.
Just hours earlier, Japan’s prime minister left the Ukrainian capital following a show of support for the country. Chinese President Xi Jinping also left Moscow after discussing his proposal for ending the war, which has been rejected by the West as a nonstarter.
The video posted by President Volodymyr Zelensky to Telegram appeared to be CCTV footage that captured the moment a missile hit the nine-story residential block by a busy road.
Ukrainian media carried pictures showing charred apartments on several stories of the affected buildings and flames billowing from some of them. The number of causalities was unknown.
Vladimir Rogov, an official with the Moscow-appointed regional administration for the Russian-occupied part of the Zaporizhzhia region, claimed that the building was hit by a Ukrainian air-defense missile launched to intercept a Russian missile. He offered no evidence to back up his claim.
Russia has denied targeting residential areas even though artillery and rocket strikes hit apartment buildings and civilian infrastructure on a daily basis. Russian officials have blamed Ukrainian air defenses for some of the deadliest strikes on apartment buildings in the past, alleging that the deployment of air-defense systems in residential areas
puts civilians at risk. An overnight drone attack partially destroyed a high school and two dormitories in the city of Rzhyshchiv, south of the Ukrainian capital, local officials said. It wasn’t clear how many people were in the dormitories at the time.