Russian attack on Zaporizhzhia kills 1, wounds 18 as rescuers pull victims from rubble (updated)

Russian military killed one person and injured 18 others in their attack on a residential area in the city of Zaporizhzhia, according to Ivan Fedorov, head of Zaporizhzhia Oblast Military Administration. 

The Russian strike has damaged a high-rise residential building and caused a fire.

“One person has been killed and one injured: the Russians struck a residential area in Zaporizhzhia. Further information is being confirmed,” Federov reported.

One woman and a 17-year-old boy are in critical condition, while other people were in moderate condition.

A person injured in the attack on Zaporizhzhia is being rescued on March 14. Photo credit: Zaporizhzhia Oblast Military Administration

As of 7:37 p.m. the number of injured has risen to 18, including two children.

Earlier on Saturday, he said that a guided aerial bomb had hit the village of Tavriiske in the Zaporizhzhia district, killing a 32-year-old man.

To provide background, after Washington lifted sanctions from Russia, Moscow launched a wave of attacks across Ukrainian regions on the night of March 14, 2026. The Kyiv region suffered the heaviest losses, with four people killed and at least 15 others injured. Additionally, four people were reported wounded following an attack on the Zaporizhzhia District. In the Kharkiv Oblast, Russian shelling injured two employees of Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian Railways).

The leaders of Germany, Canada, and Norway publicly criticized the decision by US President Donald Trump’s administration to lift sanctions on Russian oil, Bloomberg reported. The move stoked concern among Ukraine’s allies that the Kremlin would benefit from an energy price spike and use the extra funds to bankroll its four-year war on its western neighbor.

“Let me be very clear: We believe it would be wrong to ease sanctions now, for whatever reason,” Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Friday at a joint news conference with his Norwegian counterpart, Jonas Gahr Støre.

“We will, and we must continue to increase the pressure on Moscow,” the conservative German leader said. “We will not allow ourselves to be deterred or distracted from this by the war in Iran.”

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney also joined the criticism during another news conference on the sidelines of a NATO military exercise in northern Norway.

“Canada’s position is to maintain sanctions on Russia,” Carney told reporters, standing alongside Merz and Støre, “including on the shadow fleet, which is moving this oil.”

Carney and Merz both said Group of Seven leaders would try to convince Trump that now was actually the time to strengthen sanctions against Russia.

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