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Death toll rises in Ukraine after Russia attacks aid centre, hospice and hospital
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In Short: Russian attacks on Ukraine, including strikes on an aid center, a hospice, and a hospital, have killed at least 38 civilians and injured many more over the last 24 hours.
Russian forces launched a series of attacks on Ukraine, targeting an aid center, a hospice, and a hospital, resulting in at least 38 civilian deaths and numerous injuries.
In the southern Zaporizhzhia region, a glide bomb attack killed at least 33 people, with President Volodymyr Zelensky warning that the death toll could rise as more than 50 people remain trapped under the rubble.
Elsewhere, a hospice in the central city of Dnipro and a hospital in the north-eastern city of Kharkiv were hit, with Zelensky reporting that 73 people were wounded, most of them elderly patients.
The UN's human rights monitoring mission criticized the attack on the aid center, stating that it violated international humanitarian law, as the distribution of humanitarian aid had been highly publicized.
Russia launched 289 attack drones, 17 ballistic missiles, and 59 cruise missiles across nine regions, triggering emergency power cuts and damaging hospitals.
Romanian Foreign Minister Oana Țoiu said Russia is responsible for turning the Black Sea into a dangerous area for civilian ships, and the killing of merchant mariners in the region is a crime.
The verified civilian toll for the first nine months of 2026 stands at 2,570 dead and 15,211 wounded, marking a 59% increase in total casualties over the same period last year.
What's confirmed
- Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
What's still developing
- “The Russians think America won’t notice this signal of theirs,” he said.
- Russia is responsible for turning the Black Sea “into a dangerous area for civilian ships,” Romanian Foreign Minister Oana Țoiu said on Oct. 15. Țoiu said Romanian units from the Coast Guard and Department for Emergency Situations were actively taking part in search-and-rescue operations to find missing crew members from a vessel attacked the morning of Oct. 15 in Romania’s exclusive economic zone in the Black Sea.
- Those attacks resulted in civilian deaths and damaged residential buildings, a school, and a hospital.