Glide bombs destroy Komyshuvakha aid hub, killing at least 33

A school in Komyshuvakha, Zaporizhzhia region, collapsed under the weight of nine 3,000kg glide bombs on Monday night, killing at least 33 people. The building served as a humanitarian aid distribution center at the time of the attack. More than 50 individuals remain trapped beneath the rubble, and President Volodymyr Zelensky expects the final casualty count to increase.

Local officials said residents were gathering to receive supplies when the strike began. Witnesses reported that people attempted to shelter underground, but the roof caved in, trapping them inside. Mykhailo Semikin, the regional head, described the scale of the destruction as hard to comprehend. Russian defense officials claimed the strike targeted Ukrainian military units and killed 25 servicemen, though they provided little evidence of major military facilities at the site.

The attack brought the 24-hour civilian death toll to 38. In Dnipro, a missile destroyed a hospice housing nearly 50 terminally ill patients. The oldest victim was 90 years old. Mayor Boris Filatov released images of elderly residents lying in beds amid broken glass. He said he wanted global diplomats to see the photos of the people targeted by the missile. Another strike in Dnipro killed two people and wounded 18. In Kharkiv, a hospital strike injured 73 people, mostly elderly patients. Five others died in strikes on the eastern Donetsk region.

Zelensky called the Komyshuvakha strike one of the largest mass killings of the war. He noted that Ukraine had recently proposed expanding a ceasefire in Kherson to allow evacuations from Oleshky. The Ukrainian leader stated that Moscow launched the attack in response to these diplomatic moves. The UN human rights monitoring mission said the visible distribution of aid at the school appeared to violate international humanitarian law principles.

Energy infrastructure damage has disrupted water and heating supplies in nine regions. In Kyiv, the water supply was completely cut off, and the metro network stopped running on Tuesday. Mayor Vitali Klitschko described the city's power situation as very difficult.

The Kremlin announced that Russia will join trilateral peace talks with Ukraine and the US in Abu Dhabi on November 10 and 11. This is the first such meeting since February. Zelensky spoke in Berlin on Tuesday, stating that Russia has not shown serious intent for a ceasefire despite the scheduled negotiations. Several previous rounds of talks ended without results, with Russian officials maintaining a maximalist position.

US First Lady Melania Trump, who helped broker a recent truce in Oleshky, will host representatives from both countries at the White House on Thursday. The UN reported last month that civilian casualties in Ukraine reached a record high as Russian forces resumed systematic attacks on energy infrastructure.