Guided bombs fell on apartment blocks in Zaporizhzhia before dawn on Saturday, October 10. Russian forces struck the city at 4:48 a.m. local time, Ukrinform reports, and the BBC, citing local officials, says five glide bombs hit residential buildings. By Saturday evening, Ivan Fedorov, co-chair of the Zaporizhzhia Region Defense Council, put the toll at 20 dead on Telegram, adding that 32 more people had injuries and got medical care, according to Ukrinform.

The count climbed through the day as crews dug. Ukrinform reported 15 deaths in the early afternoon, then 17, then 20, as the State Emergency Service updated its figures. One early Ukrinform update said 11 people remained unaccounted for. The Kyiv Independent reports that one woman spent eight hours trapped beneath the rubble of a collapsed building, and that the strikes damaged 26 residential buildings in total.

Outlets give slightly different figures for children. The BBC, citing local officials, says four children died. The Kyiv Independent, citing the State Emergency Service, reports three children killed and three injured. This desk cannot settle the gap and will update if officials publish a final list.

Footage from one strike site shows an apartment block mostly destroyed, the BBC says. Acting Mayor Regina Harchenko described the collapse on Ukrainian television: a bomb struck the ground floor, and “the floors above just collapsed,” she said, per the BBC. She said more than 80 workers took part in search and rescue, and the BBC reports that rescuers paused often to listen for survivors under the debris. Harchenko said Russia had struck at “our very heart,” and called the deaths of “our littlest ones” an “awful grief for their families. For the city.”

Zaporizhzhia, a regional center of more than 700,000 people, sits less than 10 miles (16 km) from the front line and faces frequent Russian drone and missile attacks, the BBC notes. The city declared Sunday, October 11, a day of mourning, Ukrinform reports.

Zelensky linked the strike to Washington. He said the attacks on Zaporizhzhia showed Russia expressing “its thanks” for a deal Trump announced Friday night that eases sanctions so that Russian diesel can reach world markets, the BBC reports. He added that 13 other regions came under attack overnight, which, he argued, showed Moscow taking “any easing of pressure to mean they can keep fighting.” The Kyiv Independent reports that Russia will permit the sale of 500,000 tons of diesel to foreign markets starting October 10, after banning diesel exports in July in response to Ukrainian strikes.

Trump answered the criticism with a sharp line of his own. He called it “time for Ukraine to get a new president” when asked about the diesel deal, the Kyiv Independent reports. The BBC says analysts read the deal as an attempt to ease domestic worry over fuel prices ahead of the midterm elections.

Attacks hit other regions on Saturday too. The Kyiv Independent counts at least 24 people killed and 47 injured across Ukraine over the past day, and says Russia launched 160 drones overnight, citing Ukraine’s Air Force. Missiles hit Kyiv in the afternoon after a morning drone attack on energy infrastructure, injuring at least seven people in the Obolon district, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said, according to the same outlet.

The strike follows other deadly attacks this week, the BBC reports. The BBC reports that a glide bomb attack on two civilian buses in Kramatorsk killed at least 33 people on Thursday, and that a missile strike on an apartment block in Pryluky killed 22 people, including five children, the day before. Civilian casualties in Ukraine rose by 55% in the first eight months of this year, according to the UN, as cited by the BBC. Moscow denies targeting civilians, the BBC notes.

Open questions this desk will watch: the final toll and the names of the dead; whether officials reconcile the child-death figures; whether Washington revisits the diesel deal after the strike; and whether Russia keeps up attacks on energy targets as winter nears.