In brief: Russian forces attacked multiple districts of Zaporizhzhia on Saturday, Nov. 14, wounding 22 people – including a six-month-old infant, a two-year-old girl, and a 12-year-old boy – while a separate FPV drone strike killed a 45-year-old man in nearby Kushuhum. Incoming fire hit residential apartment blocks, an educational facility, and an infrastructure site across the Voznesenivskyi, Khortytskyi, and Zavodskyi districts, prompting authorities to close traffic across the DniproHES dam in both directions.
Russian forces launched a wave of attacks across multiple districts of the southern city of Zaporizhzhia on Saturday, Nov. 14, wounding 22 people, while a separate drone strike killed a man in the nearby settlement of Kushuhum, regional emergency services and authorities reported.
According to preliminary data from the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (DSNS), the 22 injured residents in the regional capital include three children: a six-month-old baby boy, a two-year-old girl, and a 12-year-old boy.
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Emergency crews surveyed the impact zones to locate victims and provide medical care, noting that casualty figures remain subject to clarification.
Across various locations in the city, incoming fire damaged the facades and shattered windows of multi-story residential apartment buildings and an educational institution, while also damaging seven passenger vehicles and road surfaces.
Attacks on three urban districts
Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration Head Mykhailo Semikin detailed the progression of strikes across three urban districts starting early Saturday morning.
In the Voznesenivskyi district, an attack wounded 17 people, damaged a residential apartment building, and shattered windows at an educational facility.
In the Khortytskyi district, shelling wounded two women and the six-month-old infant boy, blowing out windows in a multi-story apartment building.
Earlier in the morning, a strike hit an infrastructure facility in the Zavodskyi district, igniting a fire, damaging a building, and wounding a 32-year-old man.
Separately, Russian forces launched a first-person view (FPV) drone against the settlement of Kushuhum, striking a 45-year-old man riding a scooter along the village’s central road and killing him at the scene.
Traffic closed across the DniproHES dam
Amid the morning bombardment, regional authorities completely closed vehicular traffic in both directions across the Dnipro Hydroelectric Power Station (DniproHES) dam.
“Currently, traffic is completely closed in both directions,” Semikin warned, advising motorists to detour via the Arch Bridge, the Cable-Stayed Bridge, and the Preobrazhenskyi Bridge until further notice.
Regional officials had previously cautioned residents a day earlier regarding potential transit restrictions across bridges and the DniproHES dam due to heightened security threats.
Overnight strikes across Ukraine
The daytime barrage in Zaporizhzhia follows a deadly day of Russian attacks across the same region on Friday, Nov. 13, when strikes on an industrial facility and a five-story residential building in the Kosmichnyi district killed two people and injured 50 others, while a municipal rescuer and a transport attack victim also died.
Overnight into Saturday, Russian forces launched 96 strike drones nationwide – including 52 jet-powered models – of which Ukrainian air defenses downed 81, though strikes in Derhachi in Kharkiv region and Hlukhiv in Sumy region injured 10 civilians, including a nine-year-old boy hospitalized in intensive care and a responding police officer.
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