Russian glide bomb hits an apartment block and kills five in southern Ukraine

A firefighter works at a market destroyed by a Russian airstrike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine (Kateryna Klochko/AP)

A Russian glide bomb slammed into a residential district in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, killing five people, officials said on Friday.

Ten people were also injured in the overnight attack, including a teenage girl.

It comes as Moscow’s forces continue to hammer civilian areas of Ukraine and details emerged of a US plan to end the war, nearly four years after Russia’s all-out invasion of its neighbour.

Firefighters work at a market destroyed by a Russian airstrike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine (Kateryna Klochko/AP)

Ukrainian officials were weighing the proposals and President Volodymyr Zelensky said he expected to talk with US President Donald Trump in the coming days.

The powerful glide bomb that hit Zaporizhzhia 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.

Ukraine has no effective counter-measure against them.

Firefighters put out a fire at a market destroyed by a Russian airstrike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine (Kateryna Klochko/AP)

A Russian drone assault on the southern city of Odesa also struck a residential area during the night, injuring five people, including a 16-year-old boy.

The attacks came two days after a Russian drone and missile barrage on Ukraine’s western city of Ternopil killed 31 people, including six children, and injured 94 others, including 18 children.

Emergency services say 13 people are still unaccounted for after the attack crushed the top floors of apartment blocks and started fires.