Russia trains sights on schools, offices and buses in busy Ukrainian city

The Zaporizhzhia-nuclear-power-plant" class="entity-link entity-location" data-entity-id="3131" data-entity-type="location">Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe's largest, is located almost 50km southwest of the city in part of the region under Russian occupation.Following the relentless spate of Russian attacks, Zaporizhzhia city council met in an underground shelter to discuss the worsening situation. "The enemy has stepped up terror against civilians, municipal transport, privately-owned buses, cars, residential buildings and even children," Regina Kharchenko told the meeting.Plans had been made to build more shelters across the city and put up more anti-drone nets at the busiest and most vulnerable locations, the acting mayor told the BBC later, and she said anti-shatter film was being applied to windows in schools, hospitals and public buildings."Personally, I'm very afraid," she said. At night she sometimes sleeps on the floor in a corridor at home: "I live in an ordinary high-rise, on the seventh floor. I've got no personal bunker with 10 bodyguards. I live an ordinary life."Ukrainian forces have succeeded in pushing Russian forces back a few kilometres away from the city, and yet the attacks on Zaporizhzhia have worsened.That is because many strikes are now carried out using small but lethal first-person-view (FPV) drones, which were not able to reach the city earlier.There are several possible reasons for the deterioration, suggests Sam Cranny-Evans from the Royal United Services Institute think-tank in London.