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Russia Strikes Ukraine, Killing Civilians at Aid Center, Hospice, and Hospital
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In Short: Russian attacks in Ukraine have killed at least 38 civilians and injured scores over the last 24 hours, targeting aid centers, hospices, and hospitals.
Russian strikes on Ukraine, including an attack on an aid center in the southern Zaporizhzhia region, have killed at least 38 civilians and injured scores of others over the last 24 hours, according to the BBC.
Elsewhere, a hospice in Dnipro and a hospital in Kharkiv were hit, with Zelensky reporting 73 wounded, mostly elderly patients.
The death toll from the attack on the aid center in southern Ukraine rose to 29, with 48 still missing, as NPR reported. The incident occurred as Russia launched a wave of overnight strikes targeting power plants, hospitals, and other critical infrastructure across the country.
The UN's human rights monitoring mission said the attack on the aid center, which was highly publicized, violated the most fundamental principles of international humanitarian law.
What this adds
The attacks on aid centers, hospices, and hospitals in Ukraine have raised concerns about the humanitarian impact of the ongoing conflict.
The death toll and number of injured civilians continue to rise as rescue operations are ongoing.
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.
- The latest figures bring the verified civilian toll for the first nine months of 2026 to 2,570 dead and 15,211 wounded — a 59% increase in total casualties over the same period last year.
- Those attacks resulted in civilian deaths and damaged residential buildings, a school, and a hospital.
- The hospice had been "destroyed," and about 50 terminally ill patients have been transferred to another hospital, with the oldest among them being 90, Dnipro Mayor Borys Filatov said.
- “We saw documents and we know that they allow them to attack infrastructure, logistics, and especially to attack in the cities, in the villages, everywhere, roads, schools, hospitals,” Zelenskyy said.