Russian strikes across Ukraine killed at least 38 civilians over 24 hours, including at least 33 people in a glide bomb attack on Komyshuvakha village in the southern Zaporizhzhia region on Monday night. President Volodymyr Zelensky said more than 50 people were feared trapped under rubble at the site and called it "one of the largest mass killings committed by Russia during this war."
Nine 3,000kg aerial bombs struck a school building being used as an aid distribution centre as residents gathered to receive humanitarian aid. Local media reported people took shelter underground but the roof collapsed, trapping many beneath it. Zelensky said the attack was Moscow's response after Ukraine proposed extending a ceasefire in the Kherson region that had allowed evacuations from the Russian-occupied town of Oleshky.
Russia's defense ministry claimed the attack targeted Ukrainian military units and killed 25 servicemen. BBC News Russian defence correspondent Ilya Abishev reported there was no credible evidence the site was used by Ukrainian military and no major military or industrial facilities existed in Komyshuvakha. The UN's human rights monitoring mission said the humanitarian aid distribution had been highly publicised and the attack "seems to have violated the most fundamental principles of international humanitarian law."
In the central city of Dnipro, a Russian missile destroyed a hospice, forcing evacuation of nearly 50 terminally ill patients, including one aged 90. Mayor Boris Filatov posted photos showing elderly residents in beds surrounded by blown-out windows and rubble. Elsewhere in Dnipro, strikes killed two people and wounded 18 others. Five more people died in strikes on Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region.
Russian strikes also damaged energy infrastructure in nine regions. Water supply to Kyiv was entirely cut off due to damage to the capital's energy infrastructure, Kyivvodokanal said. The entire metro network suspended operations on Tuesday, and Mayor Vitali Klitschko said the power supply situation was becoming "very difficult."
The Kremlin announced it would participate in three-way peace talks with Ukraine brokered by the US in Abu Dhabi on 10-11 November, described as the first trilateral meeting since February. Speaking in Berlin on Tuesday, Zelensky said Russia must engage seriously in ceasefire negotiations but said he had not seen "any indication" of that happening.