Russia's invading forces launched 349 strikes on 11 settlements in Ukraine's southeastern Zaporizhzhia region on Saturday, December 21. — Ukrinform.

The attack damaged a 9-story apartment building in the city, Governor Ivan Fedorov said. Three women and a 12-year-old boy sustained injuries.

Soborni Avenue that runs through Zaporizhzhia is a testament to the times in this industrial city in southeastern Ukraine. Buildings riddled with holes, a ghost shopping mall, hundreds of shattered windows.

Russian forces bombarded Ukraine with an S-400 missile and 113 UAVs on the night of 20-21 December, of which 57 were shot down and 56 disappeared from radar. Source: Ukraine’s Air Force Details: It is specified that the Russians launched an S-400 anti-aircraft guided missile from the temporarily occupied part of Donetsk Oblast towards Poltava

A Russian missile attack has killed at least eight people and injured another 22 - including a child - in Ukraine's southern city of Zaporizhzhia, local officials say. As many as five people may still be trapped under rubble after Tuesday's strike on a private clinic and residential buildings in the city centre, police say.

(Reuters) - The death toll from a Russian missile strike that destroyed a clinic in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on Tuesday has risen to six, while four more people remain under the rubble, the regional governor and emergency services said on Wednesday.

A view shows an official vehicle of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) damaged by a drone strike on a road in Zaporizhzhia region, amid Russia's ongoing attack, in Ukraine, December 10, 2024. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy via X/Handout via REUTERS

Russia has occupied part of the Zaporizhzhia region since the first days of its 2022 invasion. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Rescue workers in Zaporizhzhia recovered the body of a woman from under the rubble of a clinic destroyed by a Russian missile strike. This brings the death toll from the December 10 attack to 11. — Ukrinform.

Russia on Wednesday accused the Ukrainian armed forces of attacking a car used to transport experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Dec. 10, saying someone could have been killed.

Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov said during a Defense Ministry meeting on Dec. 16 that Moscow aims to seize the entirety of Ukraine's Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts in 2025.

Ukraine lacks the military capability to retake all the territories occupied by Russia since 2014, president Volodymyr Zelensky has acknowledged, as he urged the West to take stronger action to confront Moscow.