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29 hurt in Russian drone attack on Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia — A Russian drone attack late yesterday set buildings ablaze in Ukraine's south-eastern city of Zaporizhzhia, injuring 29 people, including a child, reg...

A Russian drone attack late yesterday set buildings ablaze in Ukraine's south-eastern city of Zaporizhzhia, injuring 29 people, including a child, regional governor Ivan Fedorov said.

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.

The attack comesa day after Kyiv and Washington signed a landmark minerals deal.

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.

Three people were rescued from the rubble in Zaporizhzhia and 12 people were being treated in hospital, Mr 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 train engines.

The plant will not be able to function due to the significant damage, Mr Fedorov said in televised remarks.

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