Civilian Areas Targeted in Southern Ukraine
A Russian glide bomb has struck a residential area in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, killing five people and injuring ten others, regional officials confirmed on Friday, 21 November 2025. The attack is part of a continued campaign by Moscow's forces to hammer civilian infrastructure across Ukraine.
Details of the Zaporizhzhia Attack
The overnight assault damaged several high-rise apartment blocks for the third time since the war began and also wrecked a local market. According to the head of the regional military administration, Ivan Fedorov, among the ten injured was a teenage girl.
This attack came just as details of a new U.S. plan to end the war, which began with Russia's full-scale invasion nearly four years ago, were emerging. Ukrainian officials are currently weighing these proposals, and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated he anticipates speaking with U.S. President Donald Trump in the coming days.
A Devastating and Unstoppable Weapon
The weapon used, a glide bomb, is a retrofitted Soviet-era weapon launched by Russian jets from high altitude. For months, the brute force of these bombs has laid waste to Ukraine's front-line cities. Crucially, Ukraine has no effective countermeasure against them, leaving civilian populations highly vulnerable.
This was not the only attack on southern Ukraine. A separate Russian drone assault on the city of Odesa also struck a residential area overnight, injuring five people, including a 16-year-old boy.
The violence in Zaporizhzhia and Odesa follows a major barrage just two days earlier. On that occasion, a Russian drone and missile attack on the western city of Ternopil killed 31 people, including six children, and injured 94 others, 18 of whom were children. Emergency services report that 13 people remain unaccounted for after that attack crushed the top floors of apartment blocks and started fires.
