<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Ukraine said Friday at least 30 people including children were killed and dozens injured after a convoy of civilian cars in the Zaporizhzhia region was shelled in an attack Kyiv blamed on Moscow.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Thirty dead and 88 wounded as a result of another Russian war crime in Zaporizhzhia. Among the dead are two children: an 11-year-old girl and 14-year-old boy," Ukraine national police chief Igor Klymenko said on Facebook.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He said that a three-year-old girl was also among the injured.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Unfortunately we also have losses among the police. A 36-year-old employee...was killed," Klymenko said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He added that another 27 police officers were among the injured, and "four of them are in serious condition".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ukrainian officials previously reported 25 dead and around 50 injured in the attack.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Zaporizhzhia governor said Russian forces "launched a rocket attack" on the civilian convoy waiting to cross into the Russian-controlled part of the region.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The southern industrial hub of Zaporizhzhia, with a pre-war population of 700,000, is under Ukrainian control but subject to Russian rocket attacks.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Part of the region is occupied by Moscow.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Also on Friday, President Vladimir Putin declared four Ukrainian regions -- including Zaporizhzhia -- to be Russian in a lavish annexation ceremony at the Kremlin. AFP</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>