Komyshuvakha toll reaches 40 as bodycam shows Russian double-tap strike
The death toll from Monday’s Russian attack on a school used as an aid point in Komyshuvakha, in the Zaporizhzhia region, has climbed to 40, Volodymyr Zelensky said on Wednesday, with more than 30 people feared still under the rubble. Regional officials have confirmed 37 deaths and say some 38 may be trapped. Bodycam footage from a police officer killed in the strike shows residents being sent into a shelter seconds before it was hit.
Nine glide bombs, some weighing 3,000kg according to the BBC, struck the school and an adjacent shelter at least two floors underground; the recording stops as the second bomb lands, and BBC Verify confirmed the location. The search entered its third day on Wednesday. Mr Zelensky complained of “very little reaction from the world to this insane attack” and renewed his call for air defence. Russia’s defence ministry has claimed that as many as 25 Ukrainian servicemen were killed; a UN monitoring mission said the strike “seems to have violated the most fundamental principles of international humanitarian law”. Overnight on Tuesday Russia sent 310 drones, 81 of them jet-powered, cutting power and water in Kyiv for hours; Ukraine said it downed or suppressed 272. Moscow said on Thursday it had hit a postal terminal near Kharkiv and a cargo ship off Odesa, claims Kyiv did not immediately confirm, while Ukrainian drones struck the Rosneft refinery at Ryazan. Trilateral talks are due in Abu Dhabi on 10–11 November.