Key facts
- Ukraine's State Emergency Service said the strike destroyed a gymnasium, an outbuilding and a fire truck and damaged the school building.
- Two rescue workers, Denys Konovalenko and Oleksii Sushchevskyi, both 44, were among those killed, the State Emergency Service said.
- Russia used a 3-ton FAB-3000 aerial bomb carrying more than 1,000 kilograms of explosives, with a blast radius of up to 250 meters.
- Fedorov said some of the 59 missing may have been identified as of 8 a.m. local time on November 4 but did not say how many.
- Governor Mykhailo Semikin said the scale of the tragedy was horrific and that behind every number lies a human life.
The death toll from a Russian airstrike on the village of Komyshuvakha in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Oblast rose to 37, Ukraine's State Emergency Service reported on November 4, as search-and-rescue operations continued for a third day.
Russian forces struck Komyshuvakha with aerial bombs on November 2, hitting a school building used as a humanitarian aid distribution center. According to Ivan Fedorov, co-chair of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Defense Council, people had gathered at the school to receive humanitarian assistance when the attack occurred.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said on November 2 that Russian forces launched several aerial bomb attacks on the settlement throughout the morning, initially striking a school where humanitarian aid was regularly distributed. Following the first strike, Russian forces dropped another nine aerial bombs on a shelter where people were taking refuge, Zelensky said, calling it an "exceptionally horrific strike." He said Russian forces could not have been unaware that residents received humanitarian aid there every week.
According to the State Emergency Service, rescue workers and police officers had arrived at the scene when the threat of another Russian strike emerged. The rescuers took shelter, but Russian forces carried out further strikes on the same site. The attack destroyed a gymnasium, an outbuilding and a fire truck, and damaged the school building. Two rescue workers, Denys Konovalenko and Oleksii Sushchevskyi, both 44, were among those killed, the service said.