Report: Aid site death toll climbs to 29 as 48 stay missing
The search continues in southern Ukraine as Zelenskyy reports an overnight barrage across nine regions. Ukrainian accounts describe strikes targeting power plants and damaging hospitals, while Zelenskyy says the assault triggered emergency electricity cuts.
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The reported death toll from a Russian strike on a humanitarian aid site in southern Ukraine rose to 29 on November 3, with 48 people still missing, according to France 24.
The rising toll comes alongside a wider assault on civilian infrastructure. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia launched 289 attack drones, 17 ballistic missiles and 59 cruise missiles across nine regions overnight, triggering emergency power cuts.
Power plants were targeted, hospitals were damaged and scores of people were wounded in the overnight strikes, according to France 24, which relayed Ukrainian information. The search at the aid site and the assessment of damage from the wider barrage are continuing.
The casualty figures, weapons totals and accounts of targets and damage have not been independently verified. France 24's account includes no Russian response. The extent of hospital damage, the reach and duration of electricity cuts and the expected length of the rescue operation have not been established.
The Daily Inference reported earlier on November 3 that the death toll at the aid site stood at 26, with two rescuers and four police officers among those killed, according to Ukrainian officials. That article also reported a separate attack that damaged a Kharkiv medical facility, with 62 people reported injured.
The latest figures add three deaths to that toll. The 48 people reported missing remain a separate count, not a confirmed death toll.
