Russian Guided Bombs Strike Zaporizhzhia, Injure Seven Including 4-Year-Old Girl

Russian forces carried out four strikes on Zaporizhzhia on July 13, wounding seven people, including a four-year-old girl, and destroying a private house.

The head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, Ivan Fedorov, reported the attack on his official Telegram channel, confirming that guided aerial bombs, known as KABs, hit private homes in the city.

The strikes landed on residential property in a regional capital that sits within easy reach of Russian tactical aviation.

Fedorov's channel announced an air raid alert across the entire Zaporizhzhia region at 15:01. An hour later, at 16:01, the administration specifically warned of a threat of guided aerial bombs against the region.

Ukraine's Air Force Command issued a parallel warning of Russian tactical aviation activity on the northeastern axis and a threat of aerial strike weapons against frontline regions.

At 16:55, Fedorov confirmed four strikes on Zaporizhzhia. One hit the grounds of a private household, destroying the house completely and starting a fire. He initially indicated that one woman had been wounded.

The count rose in a later update. Fedorov noted that seven people had been injured across Zaporizhzhia and the Zaporizhzhia district, among them a four-year-old girl wounded by the KAB strike on private houses in the city. All of the wounded are receiving medical care, he added.

Guided aerial bombs are conventional free-fall munitions fitted with wings and guidance kits, released by Russian aircraft at a standoff distance from the target.

Because the aircraft can launch from outside the reach of many Ukrainian air defense systems, frontline cities such as Zaporizhzhia are left with a narrow warning window, which the regional administration and the Air Force relay through public alerts.

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The State Emergency Service in the Zaporizhzhia region reported separately on July 13 that rescuers had completed search-and-rescue operations at a residential building struck by Russian forces the previous day.

All emergency services worked at the scene, and municipal crews are now repairing the damaged buildings. The service noted that 44 rescuers and 10 units of equipment were deployed to deal with the aftermath.

Guided bombs have struck Zaporizhzhia's residential areas before with far heavier losses. On May 5, Russian forces hit a residential district of the city with four KABs and several drones, killing 12 people and injuring 16.

Police in the region reported that the bombs damaged an infrastructure facility, a service station, and a car wash, and that Russian forces then directed attack drones at the site while police, rescuers, and medics were treating the wounded.

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