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Russian strikes cut power and water across Kyiv as the death toll from a school bombing rises to 37

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.
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.

Russia launched more than 20 attacks on energy infrastructure within a single 24-hour period on Tuesday, leaving nine regions without power. State electricity operator Ukrenergo confirmed the extent of the assault. In southern Ukraine, rescue workers are still picking through the wreckage in Komyshuvakha, Zaporizhzhia, three days after guided bombs destroyed a former school that had been serving as an aid distribution hub; as many as 38 people are thought to remain buried beneath the debris.

Senior officials from the US, Germany, France, Britain, NATO and the EU will gather in Brussels on Wednesday to address post-war security arrangements and reconstruction ahead of next week's peace talks.

President Zelenskyy, in a Fox News interview, defiantly rejected Trump administration pressure to halt strikes on Russian oil refineries, saying 'our response must be painful.'

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