Ukraine State Emergency Service / Interfax-Ukraine (rescue operations; crop).
Russian bombing struck an aid distribution center and a neighboring shelter in Komyshuvakha, southern Ukraine, on Monday, November 2, killing 24 people, Ukraine’s emergency services agency said, according to The Associated Press.
The reported death toll rose from an earlier figure of 18. Reuters reported at 12:28 p.m. EST, citing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, that 18 people had been killed and five injured. AP’s subsequent report put the death toll at 24, attributing that figure to Ukraine’s emergency services agency.
Zelenskyy said the bombing hit a school building being used to distribute humanitarian assistance in the village in the Zaporizhzhia region. According to his account, an initial airstrike was followed by a repeat attack involving nine more bombs that struck a shelter where people had gathered.
AP reported that Zelenskyy described 10 guided bombs targeting the area that included the aid-distribution building and nearby shelter. The account of how the strikes unfolded comes from Ukrainian authorities.
“This is further proof that Russia wants no de-escalation,” Zelenskyy said, according to AP. In the remarks carried by Reuters, he said residents remaining in Komyshuvakha received humanitarian assistance at the site each week.
The attack came as a limited ceasefire expired Monday in Kherson, a different region in southern Ukraine, AP reported. The Komyshuvakha bombing took place in Zaporizhzhia; the two locations should not be conflated.
The casualty figures are those reported by Ukrainian authorities and carried by the news agencies. The later AP figure of 24 supersedes the earlier reported death toll of 18.
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