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Russian forces launched multiple strikes across Ukraine including a glide bomb attack on a school used as a humanitarian aid distribution point in the village of Komyshuvakha in the Zaporizhzhia region according to regional administration head Mykhailo Semikin. The assault which also targeted a nearby shelter where residents had gathered killed at least 33 people including four police officers and two rescue workers with 48 others listed as missing the regional head added in a Telegram update. Search and rescue teams continued working through the rubble on Tuesday as President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that the final toll could climb because more than 50 people might still be trapped underneath the debris.
Zelensky described the Komyshuvakha strike as utterly horrific in a late Monday address and said the Russian military must have known that local residents collected humanitarian aid at the site every week. The Ukrainian leader linked the timing of the assault to the expiration of a limited ceasefire in the Kherson region that had permitted aid deliveries and evacuations in front-line areas. Semikin characterised the scale of the tragedy as horrific and noted that emergency responders faced additional Russian drone attacks while trying to reach victims on Monday evening.
A separate Russian missile strike destroyed a hospice in the central city of Dnipro forcing the evacuation of nearly 50 terminally ill patients the oldest of whom was 90 years old Dnipro Mayor Borys Filatov reported on Telegram. One person was killed and 17 others injured in that attack while 20 residential buildings sustained damage or partial destruction along with a grammar school a kindergarten a music school a library an arts centre and a World Bank-supported outpatient clinic the mayor stated. More than 1,000 windows were shattered across the affected area and a local water intake facility was hit leaving part of the Prydniprovsk district without water Filatov added.
In the north-eastern city of Kharkiv a combined Russian missile and drone assault wounded at least 73 people most of them elderly patients according to regional military administration head Oleh Syniehubov. The strike damaged a medical facility in the Nemyshlianskyi district shattered windows in four apartment buildings and wrecked several cars prompting the transfer of more than 200 patients to other hospitals Syniehubov said. Local authorities reported that the attack formed part of a broader wave of overnight strikes that also targeted power infrastructure across the country.
The United Nations said last month that civilian casualties in Ukraine had reached a record level for the year with the latest strikes adding to an already grim tally. The World Health Organization has verified more than 500 Russian attacks on Ukraine’s health care system in 2025 alone representing a nearly 20 percent increase from the previous year according to data compiled by the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition. Since the full-scale invasion began in 2022 the coalition has documented over 3,000 such attacks that have killed at least 250 health care workers and severely disrupted medical services nationwide.
Filatov noted that the Dnipro hospice had only recently been renovated to serve both city residents and internally displaced people yet the facility was completely destroyed in the missile strike. Syniehubov emphasised that the Kharkiv medical facility had to relocate all its patients immediately after the strike which also affected adjacent residential structures. Zelensky used his nightly address to accuse Moscow of deliberately avoiding any path toward de-escalation following the sequence of attacks on civilian and medical targets.
