Russian military attack on Zaporizhzhia Oblast, killing man, injuring three civilians
Russian forces killed a man in an artillery strike on Huliaipole in the Zaporizhzhia Oblast and injured three people in an attack in the region, Ivan Fedorov, Head of the Zaporizhzhia Oblast Military Administration, said.
“A 69-year-old man was killed in an enemy attack on the Polohy District. The Russians shelled Huliaipole with artillery and destroyed a house. The man was killed at the scene,” he said.
He also later reported that Russian forces destroyed a house and injured three people: two men and a woman.
Russian forces conducted 713 attacks on 19 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia Oblast on December 20, including 19 airstrikes on Zaporizhzhia, Huliaipole, Orikhiv, Preobrazhenka, Vozdvyzhivka, and Novodanylivka. The attacks injured 10 people.
On November 28, Russians killed a man in the city of Beryslav while striking a repair crew in the city of Kherson and injuring a four-year-old child in the Polohy District, according to Fedorov.
Previously, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated during a press conference in Brussels that Ukraine is facing a shortage of missiles for some air defense systems and is discussing solutions to this issue with its partners. He didn’t want to specify publicly which missiles are in question, but stressed that some air defense systems lack certain types of munitions.
Zelenskyy also stressed that Russia is setting record budgets not for peace but for war against Ukraine, which he believes poses a long-term threat not only to Ukraine but also to other countries. He added that partners’ decisions on supporting Ukraine are an important indicator of how well they understand the scale of the threat.
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