Developing: More than 50 may be trapped under the rubble of a Ukrainian aid site
The toll at an aid distribution centre in Komyshuvakha has risen to at least 33, while elderly patients were caught in strikes on care facilities. Zelensky says more than 50 people could still be trapped beneath the aid site's rubble.
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Russian strikes hit a hospice and a hospital as Ukrainian accounts put civilian deaths over 24 hours at least 38, with rescuers still searching an aid centre.
The largest reported toll was in Komyshuvakha, in Ukraine's southern Zaporizhzhia region, where at least 33 people were killed on Monday night. Ukrainian authorities said nine aerial bombs, each weighing 3,000kg, struck as residents gathered at a school building used to distribute humanitarian aid.
In Dnipro, a missile destroyed a hospice and forced the transfer of nearly 50 terminally ill patients. In Kharkiv, a hospital was hit, wounding 73 people, most of them elderly patients, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky. The attacks reached places where civilians had gathered for food, shelter or care.
Zelensky called the Komyshuvakha strike "one of the largest mass killings committed by Russia during this war." He said more than 50 people could still be trapped under the rubble.
The Daily Inference reported earlier on Tuesday that the search was continuing in southern Ukraine after an overnight barrage across nine regions triggered emergency electricity cuts.
The casualty figures remain provisional. Those potentially trapped are not confirmed dead, and the circumstances and intended target of the Komyshuvakha attack remain contested. Russia's defence ministry said it struck Ukrainian military units and killed 25 servicemen, while the BBC said there was no credible evidence that the site was being used by the military and no major military or industrial facilities in the settlement.
