The number of victims has increased to 46: the consequences of the shelling of Zaporizhzhia

On the night of January 23, the Russian army attacked Zaporizhzhia with drones and ballistic missiles. The targets were residential areas and infrastructure. As a result of Russian terror, a man was killed, 46 people were injured, including a two-month-old baby. A two-story house was destroyed, about 50 apartment buildings were damaged. The homes of 20 thousand city residents were left without electricity and heating.

From January 22 to 23, the air alert in Zaporizhzhia lasted for almost six hours. Around midnight, Russian troops attacked the city with kamikaze drones. And at four in the morning, ballistic missiles were launched. One of them destroyed a two-story house, a 47-year-old resident died under the rubble. In neighboring houses, the explosion shattered windows and doors. In Anna’s apartment, there was not a single piece of glass left after the impact, all the dishes were broken in the kitchen.

“The window flew from that side all the way to the door, blocked the door, we barely left the house, the room. And there the front door jammed. We barely got out of the apartment. The dishes in the kitchen were broken, their handles were all the way in that room. Six meters… Twelve meters of the house flew away,” says Anna, a resident of Zaporizhzhia.

Tetyana cannot recover from the shock after the shelling. She says she herself does not know how she stayed alive, she managed to hide in the corridor when the blast wave blew out the window and the ceiling collapsed.

“I managed to jump out into the corridor. My neighbor’s arm was broken, he was thrown out by the blast wave. And the man across the street was screaming: “Quick, quick!” It’s terrible when you see your apartment in such ruins. What should you do now?” — laments Zaporizhzhia resident Tetyana.

Rescuers who arrived at the scene of the attack immediately began evacuating the wounded. The injured were taken to the hospital, and the people had mine-explosive injuries, eye injuries, and penetrating wounds. The youngest of them is a two-month-old boy, doctors said.

“A two-month-old child was brought in after the shelling. The diagnosis is an explosive injury, a closed craniocerebral injury, and a scalp abrasion. The child’s condition is moderate,” said Iryna Kulesh, general director of the Zaporizhzhia Children’s Regional Hospital.

At the scene of the attack, rescuers and volunteers are still helping residents close window openings with wooden shields instead of broken windows. Power engineers are restoring power supply to residential areas and boiler rooms.