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Rescuer Among 3 Dead as Russian Strikes Wound 50 in Zaporizhzhia
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In Short: A rescuer died later in the day after a concrete slab fell on him while he was clearing rubble from a building damaged in a Russian strike, according to Mykhailo Semikin, head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration.
Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region suffers huge Russian bomb attack. CNN
Russian forces killed two people and injured at least 50 others in a series of attacks on southern Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, including a strike on a five-story residential building, on Friday, Nov. 3.
Semikin said, “People who risk their lives every day to save others are themselves facing mortal danger.” He added that the rescuer was a member of the Kobra rescue service.
Separately, Semikin said that a woman who had been severely injured in a Russian attack on public transport in the Zaporizhzhia district on Thursday had died in hospital on Friday.
This brings the reported death toll from the two days of attacks to at least four, although the woman’s death resulted from Thursday’s strike.
A search operation is underway in Komyshuvakha following a Russian strike on a school on November 2, 2026. The death toll from the strike has risen to 53, according to regional administration head Mykhailo Semikin.
Ivan Fedorov, co-chair of the Zaporizhzhia Defense Council, said Russian forces used three-ton FAB-3000 bombs to strike the shelter.
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of 53 people from the rubble of an underground school in Komyshuvakha, Zaporizhzhia region, following a Russian airstrike on November 2, according to Ukrinform.
Eighty-six rescuers and 20 fire-rescue vehicles worked at multiple locations, with operations periodically suspended due to repeated attacks and shelling.
What this adds
The death toll from the Russian strikes in Zaporizhzhia has risen to 53, according to regional administration head Mykhailo Semikin, while earlier reports had placed the number at 33 or 24.
What's confirmed
- "The Russians think America won't notice this signal of theirs," he said.
What's still developing
- The Kyivindependent reported that President Volodymyr Zelensky said at a press conference in Berlin that Russian strikes on a school serving as a humanitarian aid distribution center in Komyshuvakha, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, killed at least 33 people on Nov. 2, while more than 50 others may still be trapped under the rubble.
- Seventeen people, including three children, were killed in a Russian attack on the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on Saturday, a day after US President Donald Trump announced a deal to lift sanctions on Russian diesel in a major setback for Kyiv.
- A senior official in Zaporizhzhia, Mykhailo Semikin, said Russia had hit several locations simultaneously in the early hours of Saturday.