Ukraine says a Russian airstrike on a humanitarian aid centre in the village of Komyshuvakha killed at least 18 people, injured five and left 27 missing. Regional head Mykhailo Semikin said rescue teams were still searching the rubble after at least nine 3,000kg bombs struck the southern Zaporizhzhia region. BBC reports on the strike that Ukrainian officials said the centre was used to distribute aid to local residents each week.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said the first strike hit a school being used for humanitarian purposes and that a second attack followed at a place where people were sheltering. He called the incident evidence that Russia did not want de-escalation. Those allegations have not been independently established in the fetched reporting, and the Russian military had not publicly commented. BBC’s report attributes the claims to Ukrainian officials and Zelensky.
The attack was reported as fighting resumed elsewhere in southern Ukraine after a six-day ceasefire in Kherson. That truce, described by BBC’s separate account as the longest since Russia’s full-scale invasion began, enabled hundreds of civilians to leave the Russian-occupied town of Oleshky. Ukrainian authorities said strikes resumed on Monday, including an attack on a medical facility in Kherson city and a drone strike that injured a 62-year-old woman and a 73-year-old man.
The two developments show the limited geographic scope of the pause: the ceasefire was in Kherson, in and around Oleshky, while the deadly aid-centre strike was reported in the southern Zaporizhzhia region. Russia and Ukraine’s human-rights ombudsmen had called for similar pauses elsewhere, but the Kremlin described the Oleshky arrangement as an isolated case and said there were no comparable initiatives, according to BBC’s reporting. The fetched reports establish the end of that local truce and new casualties in Zaporizhzhia, but not a broader change in either side’s national ceasefire policy.