The Russian invaders launched 16 missiles with the S-300 surface-to-air missile systems at Zaporizhzhia.

Oleksandr Starukh, the head of Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, reported about this.

At least 23 people were killed and another 28 injured as a result of an attack on a civilian convoy that was standing in line at the exit from Zaporizhzhia.

“The enemy launched a rocket attack on a civilian humanitarian convoy on the way out of the regional center. People stood in line to enter the temporarily occupied territory to pick up their relatives and take away humanitarian aid,” he wrote.

Starukh added that all dead and wounded are civilians.

The Deputy Head of the Office of the President Kyrylo Tymoshenko clarified that Russia launched 16 missiles with the S-300 SAMs at the area where the convoy of civilian cars was standing.

“Four missiles struck the area of the car market, as well as at the entry/exit point to/from the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine, where the convoy of civilian cars was standing,” he said.

According to him, on the outskirts of the city there was a convoy of cars with civilians who were going to pick up their relatives in the temporarily occupied territory.

The use of S-300 or newer S-400 SAM systems for strikes against ground targets is indiscriminate and very dangerous, first of all, for civilian objects and the population.

It should be noted that the use of surface-to-air missile systems against ground objects is an unusual use of such systems. The S-300/400 are primarily intended for hitting air targets.

Currently, the Russians are massively using these SAMs to attack Ukrainian settlements.

Previously, Russian troops opened fire on the industrial site of South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant (NPP). A powerful blast occurred just 300 meters away from South Ukraine NPP’s reactors.