Zaporizhzhia regional governor Ivan Fedorov on Friday said 29 people were injured "as a result of a nocturnal attack by the enemy", on the industrial city in southeastern Ukraine, adding that a 13-year-old boy was among the wounded in a drone strike.
"The Russians have struck the city's civilian infrastructure. Residential buildings, a university, and an infrastructure facility have been damaged," Fedorov wrote on Telegram.
He said Russian forces had made at least 10 strikes on the city, damaging private homes, high-rise apartment buildings, educational institutions and infrastructure sites.
Three people were rescued from the rubble and 12 people were being treated in hospital, Fedorov added.
The Ukrainian air force said it shot down 64 of 150 drones launched by Russia overnight. Another 62 drones did not reach their targets, likely due to electronic warfare countermeasures, it said.
It did not specify what happened to the remaining 24 drones.
Pictures posted online showed a building ablaze and rescue teams making their way through rubble and clambering up the side of damaged buildings on extended ladders. One picture showed a rescue team carrying an injured man to safety.
Ukraine's state-owned railway Ukrzaliznytsia said the attack on Zaporizhzhia also damaged its locomotive repair plant, an enterprise which specialises in the repair of passenger electric locomotives.
The plant will not be able to function anymore due to significant damage, Fedorov said in televised remarks.
Two men were also wounded in a Russian drone attack in the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, with fires breaking out at two locations, Governor Sergiy Lysak said on Telegram.
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Russia's defence ministry said its air defences destroyed 121 Ukrainian drones overnight, the majority over Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula which Russia annexed in 2014.
The latest barrage came after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said a landmark minerals deal with the US offered "equal" benefits for both sides even though the accord offered no concrete security guarantees for Kyiv.
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The agreement, which took months to negotiate, would see Washington and Kyiv jointly develop and invest in Ukraine's critical mineral resources.
The agreement "changed significantly" during negotiations, Zelensky said in an address.
The Ukrainian leader called on his country's allies to ramp up "pressure on Russia to force it to be quiet and to negotiate".
Ukraine hopes the deal will pave the way for Washington to provide security pledges to the embattled country, which has been fighting a Russian invasion for more than three years.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP and Reuters)