Several explosions have been heard in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, prompting authorities to declare a nationwide air-raid alert.
Zaporizhzhia Governor Yuriy Malashko said the 16 injured included four children.
Pictures and video shared by officials showed a big crater, wrecked cars and a badly damaged four-storey building with a hotel sign. Local media reported the damaged building is Reikartz Hotel in the city centre on the bank of the Dnipro River.To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser thatThe United Nations staff used the hotel when they worked in the town, said Denise Brown, the humanitarian coordinator for Ukraine, in an emailed statement.
‘I am appalled by the news that a hotel frequently used by United Nations personnel and our colleagues from NGOs supporting people affected by the war has been hit by a Russian strike in Zaporizhzhia shortly ago’ she said. ‘I have stayed in this hotel every single time I visited Zaporizhzhia.’ It was the second strike on Zaporizhzhia in as many days. Two young women and a man were killed and nine other people were wounded in a Russian missile attack on Wednesday.
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