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A 50-year-old man and his 11-year-old daughter were killed after Russian forces stormed a residential building in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on Sunday, authorities said.
The State Emergency Service of Ukraine also reported that a 46-year-old woman, identified as the wife and mother of the victims, was pulled from the rubble.
City council secretary Anatoliy Kurtev said two missiles had destroyed one building and damaged dozens of others during the overnight attack.
“Severe punishment for the invaders because of this criminal war is inevitable,” he wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
Rescuers dug through piles of concrete and other debris early Sunday morning amid the wailing of air raid sirens.
A blown-out wall revealed the charred remains of the family’s living room, where a collapsed television and a broken wall cabinet still hung.
A body, which the locals say is that of the murdered man, is wrapped in a blanket nearby.
“It’s a shame, they are a young family,” said neighbor Viktor Hrankin, 72.
Regional governor Yuriy Malashko told Reuters the injured woman was taken to hospital and was in serious condition.
The attack was the latest in a series of recent attacks on civilian targets in the region as Moscow’s full-scale invasion drags into its second year.
Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed on Sunday that it had destroyed a depot containing 70,000 tons of fuel near Zaporizhzhia as well as Ukrainian military warehouses in the Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions.
The ministry also said that Russian forces had destroyed Ukrainian army warehouses storing missiles, ammunition and other artillery weapons in the Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions.
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