In brief: Russian attacks on Zaporizhzhia on Friday killed two people and injured 30, including six children. A five-story residential building was hit in the Kosmichnyi district, while a separate strike killed a 17-year-old boy. A woman injured on Thursday also died in hospital on Friday.
Russian forces killed two people and injured at least 30 others in a series of attacks on southern Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia, including a strike on a five-story residential building, on Friday, Nov. 13.
Mykhailo Semikin, head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration (OVA), said at 7:42 a.m. that a Russian attack on a residential area had killed a 17-year-old boy.
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Rescuers pulled four people from the rubble: a 35-year-old woman, a 10-year-old boy, a 34-year-old man, and a 58-year-old woman. All were handed over to emergency medical services.
At 10:18 a.m., Semikin reported another Russian strike, saying a man was trapped under rubble and a fire had broken out.
He later confirmed that the man had died. The victim had been trapped following a strike on an industrial facility in the Kosmichnyi district.
At 11:48 a.m., Semikin reported that Russian forces had struck a five-story residential building in the same district. Apartments on three floors were damaged, while fires broke out in apartments on the second and third floors, and vehicles in the courtyard caught fire.
At least four people were initially reported injured, including two children.
The number of injured later rose to 25, including six children, by 2:18 p.m. Search and rescue operations were subsequently completed, with all those affected receiving assistance.
By 3:11 p.m., the reported number of injured in the attack on the Kosmichnyi district had increased to 30.
Separately, Semikin said that a woman who had been severely injured in a Russian attack on public transport in the Zaporizhzhia district on Thursday had died in hospital on Friday.
This brings the reported death toll from the two days of attacks to at least three, although the woman’s death resulted from Thursday’s strike.
Nationwide strikes also hit Kyiv’s trauma institute
Russian forces launched a large-scale drone assault across Ukraine overnight on Friday, damaging Kyiv’s National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics and killing at least four civilians in other regions.
The attack on the six-story medical facility caused a fire that partially destroyed the second floor. Emergency crews rescued seven people, while staff evacuated patients from the affected wards to other sections of the institution.
The nationwide assault also killed two people and injured seven in Odesa, where a private house and vehicles were damaged.
In the Sumy region, two civilians were killed when a Russian FPV drone targeted them in the Seredyna-Buda community.
In Rivne, six people, including two children, were injured after a drone struck a multi-story residential building, while three people were injured in Vinnytsia, where residential buildings and a kindergarten were damaged.
According to Ukraine’s Air Force, Russia launched 117 drones overnight, including 63 jet-powered UAVs. Ukrainian air defenses intercepted or suppressed 80 of them, but impacts were recorded at 24 locations, with debris from intercepted drones falling at another 10 sites.
The assault comes amid a sharp rise in civilian casualties from Russian attacks. Russian strikes killed 328 civilians and injured 2,105 others in September 2026, an 85% increase compared with September 2025, according to figures cited in the report.
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