On September 22, 2024, at approximately 23:00, Russian troops carried out three air strikes in the center of Zaporizhzhya. The shelling injured 21 people, including a 15-year-old boy. Five residents were hospitalized. On September 23, two women aged 94 and 23 remained in the hospital.
At half past one in the morning on September 23, a 94-year-old resident of Zaporizhzhya was hospitalized with a mine-blast injury. According to the patient, a window frame fell on her during the explosion. She sustained a head injury. At the hospital, she underwent primary surgical treatment of the wound, stitches and a computed tomography scan of her brain. The patient is currently in moderate condition and conscious.
On the afternoon on September 23, a 23-year-old woman from Zaporizhzhya was hospitalized. She was admitted to the medical facility in consciousness with headache complaints. The patient suffered a severe head injury, a fracture of the skull base and a bilateral fracture of the skull skeleton of the face. There is a suspicion of lung contusion. She is currently in a severe condition and remains in intensive care.
The people who sustained minor injuries from glass fragments received first aid: their wounds were treated and bandaged. They refused to be hospitalized.
More than forty apartment buildings, as well as social and infrastructure facilities, were damaged. The blast wave smashed windows and destroyed balconies in the houses of Zaporizhzhya residents. 185 residents of the regional center applied for help with the reconstruction.
From the first minutes after the explosion, rescuers were on the scene of the tragedy. They evacuated 27 people to safe places. Within 40 minutes after the shelling, the rescuers unblocked people from the damaged apartments. The firefighters extinguished the fire on the car and the balcony of the apartment that started after the shelling, over a total area of 10 square metres.
