In Zaporizhzhia, there was an explosion and an air alarm. The air-raid siren sounds. Residents are asked to go to the shelter.
On Friday morning, the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration head, Oleksandr Starukh, clarified that the Russian military had fired on a military facility near Zaporizhzhia. The consequences are being defined.
He said this on the air of the all-Ukrainian marathon on the morning of 18 March.
"There has just been a strike near Zaporizhzhia (...). We have a military facility there, there are two bombs: either a Smerch or something dropped from the plane. One bomb exploded; the other one did not. The consequences are being updated. There is no data about casualties yet," Interfax-Ukraine citing Oleksandr Starukh.