Death toll from Russian bombing of a Ukrainian aid site rises to 37 as rescuers search the rubble for 38 trapped
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.
Russian bunker-busting bombs packed with nearly 1.5 tonnes of explosives destroyed a former school building in Komyshuvakha, Zaporizhzhia, that Ukraine says was being used as a humanitarian aid distribution point. Western officials from the US, Germany, France, Britain, NATO and the EU are to meet in Brussels on Wednesday to discuss post-war security arrangements, days before a fresh round of US-brokered peace talks.
Russia launched 289 drones, 17 ballistic missiles and 59 cruise missiles in a single overnight wave, knocking out power across nine regions.
Ukraine's largest private power generator, DTEK, said three of its five thermal plants were knocked offline, with Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko calling the city's power situation 'extremely difficult'.
Zelenskyy, defying US pressure to stop hitting Russian energy targets, told Fox News: 'Our response must be painful.'
