Zaporizhzhia city council secretary Anatoliy Kurtev said the church had been destroyed and about 15 high-rise buildings had been damaged.

A video posted by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy overnight showed smoke billowing from burning and badly damaged buildings next to a church. Two young women and a man were killed and nine other people were wounded, Ukrainian officials said on Thursday. Three people are now known to have died after a Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia late on Wednesday. The navy said in a separate statement that the risk posed by mines in the Black Sea and the military threat from Russia remained.

“The corridor will be very transparent, we will put cameras on the ships and there will be a broadcast to show that this is purely a humanitarian mission and has no military purpose,” he said. Oleh Chalyk, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian navy, said the corridor would be used by commercial ships blocked at Ukraine’s Black Sea ports and for grain and agricultural products. Ukraine’s navy has said a new temporary Black Sea “humanitarian corridor” had started working on Thursday and that the first ships were expected to use it within days. Air defence was said to be active in Kyiv region and Khmelnytskyi. Ukraine claims to have shot down seven of ten “Shahed” drones launched at it overnight by Russia. The ministry said there were no reports of damage or casualties in any of the affected areas. It said two Ukrainian drones were shot down near the city of Sevastopol on the Crimean coast, and “another 9 were suppressed by means of electronic warfare and crashed in the Black Sea”. Russia’s defence ministry said early on Thursday it had downed 11 Ukrainian drones near Crimea overnight, as well as two drones flying toward the capital Moscow.

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