Russia’s Defense Ministry said in its daily bulletin on Sunday that it had launched a missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, but said the target was a fuel depot, which Ukraine said killed two people after the bombing.

Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Ihor KonashenkovPhoto: Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation / UPI / Profimedia

“In the area of ​​the city of Zaporizhzhia, a warehouse with 70,000 tons of fuel used by the Armed Forces of the Donbass was destroyed by a high-precision missile,” says the military bulletin presented by the Russians, EFE and Agerpres report. .

According to Kyiv, a 50-year-old man and his 11-year-old daughter were killed during the Russian attack on Zaporizhzhia, where Europe’s largest nuclear power plant is located in the district of the same name.

The rescuers pulled the 46-year-old mother of the murdered girl alive from under the rubble, who is seriously injured.

Russian forces control part of the Zaporizhia region (southern Ukraine), including the nuclear power plant, but not the region’s capital.

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