Russian Missiles Strike Apartment Building Near Nuclear Power Plant

At least seven Russian missile strikes rocked the city of Zaporizhzhia Thursday, as Moscow looks to gain control over "annexed" regions as Ukrainian forces continue to advance.

Residential buildings were hit in the regional capital killing at least one and trapping at least five in the rubble, including a 3-year-old.

"Preliminary data on victims of the enemy attack. One woman was killed. There are at least five people under the rubble of houses," Head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, Oleksandr Starukh, said on Telegram.

A Ukrainian MP said that a missile strike on an apartment block in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia was a "war crime" carried out by Russian forces who intended to step up their attacks on civilian targets.

The strikes came hours after the Kremlin said it was formally seizing Europe's biggest nuclear power plant nearby. Ukrainian emergency services said three bodies have been pulled from the rubble of the five-story apartment block and a three-year-old girl was among those saved.

Russian missiles hit apartment buildings in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on Thursday, a local official said, killing three people and wounding at least 12 in a region that houses Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant and which Moscow has illegally annexed.

The two strikes, the first before dawn and another in the morning, damaged more than 40 buildings, authorities said. The attacks came hours after Ukraine’s president announced that his military had retaken three more villages in another of the four regions annexed by Russia, Moscow’s latest battlefield reversal.