Zaporizhzhia Governor Ivan Fedorov said on the Telegram messaging app that Russia dealt at least seven air strikes to the city and the surrounding district, damaging 13 apartment buildings, educational institutions, cars, garages and private residences.
Rescuers evacuated residents from several damaged apartment buildings, Ukraine's Interior Ministry said on Telegram. The ministry said according to preliminary information, Russia used its guided aerial bombs to strike Zaporizhzhia.
Both sides deny targeting civilians in their attacks, but thousands of civilians have been killed - the vast majority of them Ukrainians - in the war that Moscow launched with a full-scale invasion in February 2022.
Fedorov said on Telegram that in total, Russia conducted 363 air and ground strikes in the past day on 12 settlements in the broader Zaporizhzhia region of which the Zaporizhzhia city is the administrative center.
Ukraine's emergency services posted a video on its Facebook page showing rescuers trying to remove debris and unblock an entry to an apartment and attend to wounded people at night in front of a damaged residential building.
Russia also launched two guided air missiles and four attack drones targeting Ukraine overnight, Ukraine's air force said on Monday.
Three of the drones were shot down over the northeastern Sumy region, the air force said on Telegram.
The two missiles and one drone "did not reach their targets due to the active anti-aircraft missile defense of the Defence Forces of Ukraine", the air force said.
