Russian troops hit rescue car with drone in Zaporizhzhia, causing injuries
State Emergency Service vehicle (Illustrative photo: Getty Images)
Russian forces struck a fire-rescue vehicle with an FPV drone, injuring one person, according to Ukraine’s State Emergency Service on Telegram.
On October 23, Russian troops carried out the FPV drone attack on the fire-rescue vehicle after it had extinguished a fire in Orikhiv, Zaporizhzhia region.
One firefighter sustained a shoulder injury and blast-related trauma and was transported to a hospital. The other emergency responders were unharmed.
The fire-rescue vehicle was also damaged.
“This is yet another example of deliberate attacks by the occupiers on rescuers - people who risk their own lives every day to save others,” the State Emergency Service of Ukraine stated.
In the Kharkiv region, a rescuer was killed by a drone strike
As previously reported by RBC-Ukraine, on the night of October 23, while extinguishing a fire caused by a hostile drone strike in the Kupiansk district, Kharkiv region, Russian forces struck the site again where the rescuers were operating.
As a result of the attack, fire-rescue unit commander Yurii Chystikov was killed. Five other rescuers were injured.
Drone attack on Zaporizhzhia on the night of October 22
Russian forces carried out a massive strike on Zaporizhzhia on the night of October 22.
According to Ivan Fedorov, head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, 13 people sought medical assistance.
Rescuers reported:
- Balconies on four floors of a residential building caught fire (100 sq. m);
- Fires broke out on four balconies of a five-story building (60 sq. m);
- A fire on the roof of a multi-story building was extinguished.
“They targeted infrastructure,” Fedorov stated.
