site.btaTwo 18-Year-Olds Killed, Nine Injured in Drone Attack on Zaporizhzhia, Says Regional Governor

Two 18-year-olds, a boy and a girl, were killed and nine others were injured after a drone attack on the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia Tuesday evening, the head of the Zaporizhzhia regional military administration, Ivan Fedorov, said on Telegram.

According to him, among the injured are three children - girls aged 15 and 12, and an 11-year-old boy. Doctors are providing medical assistance to the victims, Fedorov added.

The air raid alert in the Ukrainian city has been in effect for 23 hours without interruption. The strikes caused damage to four residential buildings, shops, and cars.

Regional authorities are urging local residents to take shelter in bomb shelters.

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.