Casualties at Zaporizhzhia Bus Station Attack Reach 19

Emergency crews in the city of Zaporizhzhia have taken at least 19 people to the hospital while continuing to comb the rubble for survivors of Russian glide bomb attacks on a busy bus station there on Sunday.

Nationwide, the death toll from Sunday’s barrage of shelling, bombing and drone attacks has risen to six. The civilians were killed in the eastern regions of Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson.

“Russia has not taken a single real step towards peace, not a single step on the ground or in the air that could save lives,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his evening address on Sunday.

Videos from the site shared by the governor of the Zaporizhzhia region, Ivan Federov, showed rescuers with sniffer dogs pulling injured people in blood stains and dust from the rubble in the shattered central bus station building.    

“Multiple mine-blast injuries to the limbs, head, and abdominal cavity – these are the injuries sustained by people who were near the bus station when the enemy struck it,” he wrote.

Among the victims are men aged 24, 38, 39, 41, and 56, and women aged 25 and 77.

The region’s police wrote on Telegram that two glide bombs were responsible for the attack on civilians.

“At 17:50, the Russians dropped two aerial bombs (type to be specified) on two areas of the regional center. They hit the city bus station building and a private medical clinic nearby. As of 7:50 p.m., 19 people are known to have been injured. Police, rescuers medics, and municipal services are working at the sites of the strikes,” their report said.

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One of the victims was pulled from the rubble. Rescue efforts continued into the early morning hours of Monday.

In addition to the bus station and clinic, the bombing also wounded civilians in nearby cars and a gas station.