Two women pulled alive from rubble 7 hours after missile strike by Putin’s forces on Ukraine
The women called rescue services on their mobile phones to say they were buried
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Your support makes all the difference.Rescue crews working through the night have pulled two Ukrainian women from rubble more than seven hours after a Russian missile struck a private medical clinic in southern Zaporizhzhia city, killing six people and injuring 22 others, Ukraine’s emergency services said.
The women called rescue services on their mobile phones to say they were buried under the rubble after the attack late on Tuesday.
Deadly Russian strikes on civilian areas have been a feature of Vladimir Putin’s almost three-year war.
Ukraine's western allies are sending more aid to help it keep fighting Russia’s invasion, but Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said the Zaporizhzhia strike showed that his country still needs more air defence systems.
He urged western partners to send weaponry they are holding in their arsenals.
“We currently do not have enough systems to protect our country from Russian missiles. But partners have these systems,” Mr Zelensky said in his daily address to the nation on Tuesday night.
Air defence systems that Ukraine’s allies possess “should save lives, and not gather dust in storage bases”, he said.
Meanwhile, Ukraine kept up its long-range attacks on areas behind Russian lines that are supporting its war effort.
A Ukrainian drone attack caused a blaze at an industrial facility in Russia’s Bryansk region, governor Aleksandr Bogomaz said.
Air defences downed 14 Ukrainian drones over the Bryansk region early Wednesday, the Russian defence ministry said.
Also, a Ukrainian missile attack on the city of Taganrog in the Rostov region early on Wednesday damaged an industrial plant, governor Yury Slusar said.
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