Over the past 24 hours, Russian forces carried out 1,069 strikes across 51 settlements in Zaporizhzhia region. Four people were wounded and dozens of homes and infrastructure sites damaged.
Zaporizhzhia region remains one of the most heavily shelled front-line territories in Ukraine. Over the past day, according to the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, enemy forces carried out 1,069 strikes across 51 settlements in the region — mostly with FPV drones, alongside airstrikes, multiple rocket launcher fire and artillery. Four civilians were wounded. Volunteers Support Ukraine wants to underline that behind these dry statistics are real people, homes and communities living under threat every single day.
Among the settlements hit were the regional center of Zaporizhzhia itself, as well as Orikhiv, Preobrazhenka, Vesele, Novomykolaivka, Chervona Krynytsia and more than a dozen other villages and towns along the front line. Multi-apartment and private homes, outbuildings, garages and civilian vehicles were damaged. In some settlements, strikes on energy infrastructure knocked out power temporarily.
Strikes on Zaporizhzhia region are regularly followed by so-called "double-tap" attacks, where a second drone hits the same spot once rescuers or medics have arrived to respond to the first explosion. This forces emergency services to work under constant danger, and vehicles and equipment belonging to the State Emergency Service and municipal utilities in the region are frequently hit directly while crews are on task.
Ivan Fedorov, head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, has said that this intensity of shelling isn't an isolated event but a fixture of daily life in the region — a thousand or more strikes in a day have become close to the norm rather than the exception. Residents of front-line villages keep evacuating children, replacing shattered windows and patching roofs between successive waves of attacks.
NGO Volunteers Support Ukraine keeps helping people affected by the war in whatever way and to whatever extent its available resources allow — especially in regions like Zaporizhzhia, where the intensity of strikes hasn't let up for months on end.
