On the morning of December 16, Russian troops attacked Zaporizhzhia with a Shahed strike drone. The strike caused a fire in a multi-story residential building, injuring three people.
This was reported by the head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, Ivan Fedorov.
The fire engulfed several apartments. Rescuers worked at the site of the strike, evacuating residents from the upper floors.
“Apartments on two floors of a residential building were burned out as a result of an enemy Shahed attack on the regional center,” Fedorov wrote.
Three people were injured. One man suffered shrapnel wounds, and a woman was poisoned by carbon monoxide. The condition of the third victim is being clarified.
More than 50 rescuers and 14 units of equipment from the State Emergency Service extinguished the fire. Four apartments on the 5th and 6th floors burned over an area of 120 square meters. The fire has been extinguished, and the debris is being cleared.
Emergency workers rescued five residents from the upper floors, two of whom were rescued using a ladder truck. The evacuated people did not require medical assistance. State Emergency Service psychologists provided assistance to ten people.
