At least five people have been killed after a Russian glide bomb slammed into a residential district in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, officials said on Friday, as Moscow’s forces continue to hammer civilian areas.

The powerful glide bomb damaged some high-rise apartment blocks for the third time since the war began and also wrecked a local market, according to the head of the regional military administration, Ivan Fedorov.

The brute force of glide bombs, a retrofitted Soviet weapon launched by Russian jets flying at high altitude, has for months laid waste to Ukraine's front-line cities.

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Ukraine has no effective countermeasure against them.

A Russian drone assault on the southern city of Odesa also struck a resi

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