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According to Ukrainian sources, at least 23 civilians were killed in a suspected rocket attack on a civilian vehicle convoy in the city of Zaporizhia in eastern Ukraine.
The convoy is said to have been fired upon as it tried to leave the city.
According to Ukrainian information, the vehicles were on their way to the area occupied by Russian troops to deliver relief supplies and pick up relatives.
The governor of the Zaporizhia region of the same name spoke of a "terrorist act".
Sergiy Ugriumov, spokeswoman for the national police for Zaporizhia
»Today at 7:10 am Russian troops carried out three rocket attacks on the territory of the car market near the Zaporizhia-Orikhiv highway.
A convoy of civilians trying to pass through the checkpoint and get into the occupied territories was hit.
At the moment we have information about 23 dead, 62 people were taken to medical facilities in the city, their condition is still being determined."
The Russian side confirms the attack and the 23 fatalities - but accuses the Ukrainian side of carrying out the attack.
This information from the war zone can hardly be checked at the moment.
Other cities in eastern Ukraine have recently come under rocket fire.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy blamed Russia for the shelling in Zaporizhia and elsewhere.
He declared that he wanted to hold Moscow accountable for every life lost.
He wrote on Telegram:
»Only absolute terrorists for whom there is no place in the civilized world can act like this«.
During the course of the war, Russia was repeatedly criticized for attacking civilian targets, but mostly denied these allegations.
After the attack on the convoy, the governor of the Zaporizhia region declared October 1 a day of mourning to commemorate the killed civilians.
