Russian Glide Bombs Strike Zaporizhzhia, Injuring 6 Including Toddler

Russian forces launched 12 guided aerial bomb (KAB) strikes against the southern city of Zaporizhzhia on Saturday evening, Nov. 14, wounding six people – including a two-year-old child – and damaging multi-story residential apartment buildings and dozens of parked vehicle. Acting Head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration Mykhailo Semikin and Zaporizhzhia Regional Defense Council Co-Chair Ivan Fedorov reported the evening bombardment on Telegram.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. Semikin initially recorded eight strikes across the city and five injured civilians before updating the tally to 12 aerial bomb strikes as rescue crews assessed the impact zones and the number of wounded rose to six. According to regional officials, the wounded include three women aged 40, 78, and 79, two men aged 19 and 39, and a two-year-old child. Blast waves shattered windows across several multi-story residential buildings and damaged dozens of parked cars, while a structural fire broke out at one of the residential impact sites. Saturday’s strikes on Zaporizhzhia The evening guided bomb barrage capped a day of sustained Russian attacks on Zaporizhzhia and surrounding communities on Saturday, Nov. 14. Earlier in the day, waves of Russian strikes hit the Voznesenivskyi, Khortytskyi, and Zavodskyi urban districts, wounding 22 residents – including a six-month-old infant, a two-year-old girl, and a 12-year-old boy – and damaging apartment blocks, an educational facility, and an infrastructure site, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (DSNS). Other Topics of Interest Bulgarian PM Rumen Radev announced in Dublin that Sofia lacks funds to back Ukraine financially and will halt all weapon and ammunition transfers from army stocks. Separately on Saturday morning, a Russian first-person view (FPV) drone struck a 45-year-old man riding a scooter along the central road of the nearby settlement of Kushuhum, killing him at the scene. Amid the morning bombardment, regional authorities completely closed vehicular traffic in both directions across the Dnipro Hydroelectric Power Station (DniproHES) dam, advising motorists to detour via the Arch Bridge, the Cable-Stayed Bridge, and the Preobrazhenskyi Bridge. Strikes earlier in the week The back-to-back bombardments on Saturday followed a deadly day of Russian attacks across the Zaporizhzhia region on Friday, Nov. 13. During Friday’s strikes, incoming fire hit an industrial facility and a five-story residential apartment building in the Kosmichnyi district, killing a 17-year-old boy and a man trapped under industrial rubble while wounding 50 others, including eight children. A member of the Kobra municipal rescue service was also killed on Friday when a concrete slab collapsed on him during rubble-clearing operations, while a woman critically injured in a Thursday strike on public transport died in the hospital, bringing the regional death toll over the two days prior to Saturday to four. Kyiv Post is Ukraine’s first and oldest English news organization, reporting since 1995. Its international reach – 90% of readers are outside of Ukraine – make it truly Ukraine’s global voice.