site.btaFifteen People Injured in Drone Attack on Zaporizhzhia, Says Regional Governor

Fifteen people, including three children, were injured in a drone attack on the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on Tuesday, said Ivan Fedorov, head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, on Telegram. "Two infants, aged seven and six months, required medical assistance. A 13-year-old boy has also been hospitalized," Fedorov reported.

According to him, most of the injured suffered shrapnel wounds, bruises, and poisoning.

"More than 120 people have already reported damage to their homes as a result of the overnight attack on Zaporizhzhia. Social workers have registered 28 people in particularly vulnerable conditions," the regional governor said earlier in the day.

Efforts to deal with the aftermath of the attack are ongoing.

According to the most recent official census in Ukraine, 27,764 ethnic Bulgarians live in the Zaporizhzhia region. The Bulgarian community is concentrated in the districts of Primorsky, Melitopolsky, Berdyansk, and Priazovsky, which are currently Russian-occupied. The first Bulgarian settlers from Bessarabia arrived between 1861 and 1862.