Nine people killed in Russian missile attack on Zaporizhzhia

Acting Mayor of Zaporizhzhia Anatolii Kurtiev said this in a post on the Telegram messaging app, Ukrinform reports.

"On December 29, in our city, the rashists brutally took the lives of nine innocent civilians," he wrote.

A day of mourning was declared in Zaporizhzhia for those killed in yesterday's enemy missile attack.

The enemy fired 12 missiles at the city. One missile hit a residential building, destroying it completely. Earlier reports said that eight people had been killed in the attack.