Rescuers race to free dozens who are trapped in rubble after Russian bombs killed 33 at a Ukrainian aid hub
Rubble-strewn ground at Komyshuvakha, in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, where Russian drones repeatedly forced rescue teams to suspend operations throughout the night after the initial strikes.Volodymyr Zelenskyy's post on X showing the aftermath of the Komyshuvakha attack, which he condemned as a "vile terrorist strike", warning that Russia could not have been unaware civilians gathered at the school weekly to collect aid.
Nine Russian glide bombs — each packed with around 3,000 pounds of explosives — struck a school in Komyshuvakha, Zaporizhzhia, while locals gathered to collect food and medicine. Zelenskyy called it "one of the largest mass killings committed by Russia during this war," with the EU-funded hardened basement collapsing on those sheltering inside. Russia hit a hospice in Dnipro and a hospital in Kharkiv in the same wave, wounding at least 62 in the northeast alone.
Russia simultaneously launched 289 drones, 17 ballistic missiles and 59 cruise missiles, knocking three of Ukraine's five main thermal power plants offline.
Peace talks between the US, Russia and Ukraine are set to resume in Abu Dhabi early next week — the first three-way meeting since February.
Zelenskyy defied US pressure to halt strikes on Russian oil refineries, telling Fox News: 'Our response must be painful.'
