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Russian Strikes Kill 24 in Ukraine, Power Outages Affect 10 Regions
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In Short: Russian strikes killed 24 people in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, while power outages affected 10 regions.
Russian forces targeted a humanitarian aid distribution center in the village of Komyshuvakha, Zaporizhzhia region, on Monday, killing at least 24 people, including two rescue workers and four police officers, according to Ukraine's State Emergency Service (DSNS).
Emergency responders at the scene of the strike in the Vinnytsia region reported another overnight strike that killed two people, including a 13-year-old girl, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.
Coordinated Russian missile and drone strikes on Oct. 30 damaged combined heat and power plants, four electrical substations, gas distribution hubs, and rail infrastructure across Kyiv, Dnipro, Shostka, and Kharkiv, leaving roughly 280,000 families without electricity, according to the Kyiv Post.
Because of regular attacks on energy infrastructure, emergency power cuts have been introduced across the country. In Ukraine, repair works to restore power continued throughout the day.
Russian strikes left hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians without power on Sunday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, while Russian authorities reported major damage to an industrial site following Ukrainian drone attacks on Nizhny Novgorod region.
A day of mourning has been declared for Tuesday across the entire Zaporizhzhia region.
A humanitarian operation to rescue trapped civilians from the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky in southern Kherson region has concluded successfully, with evacuated Ukrainian citizens and the official humanitarian delegation crossing the state border into Ukraine’s Chernihiv region, President Volodymyr Zelensky reported on Saturday, Oct. 31.
The rare humanitarian ceasefire in Ukraine's front-line Kherson region that allowed civilians to evacuate the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky has ended, according to the BBC.
Most customers in the Dnipropetrovsk region had their connections restored by early evening, but more than 60,000 were still without power, the governor said.
What this adds
The attack on the aid distribution center and neighboring shelter in southern Ukraine killed 24 people, including two rescue workers and four police officers, according to Ukraine's State Emergency Service (DSNS).
The attack on the aid center and neighboring shelter in southern Ukraine killed 26 people, including two rescue workers and four police officers, according to Ukrainian authorities.
Background
Russian forces targeted a school in Komyshuvakha, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, which served as a humanitarian aid distribution center, killing at least 24 people, including two rescue workers and four police officers, according to Ukraine's State Emergency Service (DSNS).
Kyivindependent stated that more than 600,000 people in the Kyiv region of Ukraine were without power on Saturday morning after an overnight Russian attack.
What's confirmed
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia had struck energy infrastructure in four regions overnight on Saturday, leaving hundreds of thousands of homes without power.
- Five people were injured and 27 initially reported missing after at least nine 3,000kg aerial bombs hit the village of Komyshuvakha in the southern Zaporizhzhia region, regional head Mykhailo Semikin said.
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