The death toll from a Russian attack in southern Ukraine, where people had gathered to receive humanitarian aid, rose to 29, with 48 people still missing. Russia launched 289 attack drones, 17 ballistic missiles, and 59 cruise missiles across nine regions overnight, triggering emergency power cuts, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The guided-bomb attack first targeted a school building used to distribute humanitarian aid in Komyushuvakha, a village in the southern Zaporizhzhia region, and then struck a nearby shelter. Among the dead were four police officers and two rescue workers, with at least five people injured, said Mykhailo Semikin, acting head of the regional military administration.
In the northeast region of Kharkiv, a combined Russian missile and drone attack wounded at least 62 people. A strike damaged a medical facility in the Nemyshlianskyi district, shattering windows in four apartment buildings and damaging cars. More than 200 patients were transferred to other medical facilities, according to Oleh Syniehubov, head of the regional military administration.
In the Dnipro area, rescuers pulled a woman alive from the rubble Tuesday morning after a Russian attack killed one person and wounded 17, local authorities reported. The attack damaged an outpatient clinic and a hospital, with patients transferred to other facilities, said Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the regional military administration.
Russia’s Ministry of Defense claimed it shot down 856 Ukrainian drones overnight, while Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported 493 drones were fired toward the Russian capital.
A Ukrainian drone attack wounded two employees at an oil refinery in the Russian city of Yaroslavl, regional Governor Mikhail Yevrayev said, adding that refinery infrastructure was damaged. Rolling blackouts have been instituted in the south, west, and east of Russian-occupied Crimea following attacks on energy infrastructure, Moscow-installed officials reported Tuesday.