Key facts
- Governor Mykhaylo Semikin said the death toll from the November 2 strike on Komyshuvakha rose to 53 on November 6.
- Search and rescue at the site have continued for five days, and the final death toll has yet to be established.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian forces dropped another nine aerial bombs on a shelter where civilians and rescue workers had taken refuge.
- Ukraine's General Staff said Ukrainian forces struck two Russian ammunition depots in Zaporizhzhia Oblast on November 5 and 6.
- Monitoring channels reported a fire at the Afipsky Oil Refinery in Krasnodar Krai after a Ukrainian drone attack overnight into November 6.
- Ukraine's Defense Ministry said unmanned ground vehicles completed a record 31,398 missions in October, up from 7,511 in January 2026.
The death toll from Russia's November 2 aerial bomb attack on the village of Komyshuvakha in Zaporizhzhia Oblast rose to 53, Governor Mykhaylo Semikin said on November 6. Search and rescue operations at the site have continued for five days, and the final toll has yet to be established. The Kyiv Independent reported that the strike was the deadliest Russian attack on Zaporizhzhia Oblast since the start of the full-scale invasion.
Russian forces struck the front-line village several times on November 2, initially hitting a school building where local residents had gathered to receive humanitarian aid. One of the bombs was a 3-ton FAB-3000 carrying more than 1,000 kilograms of explosives. President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian forces then dropped another nine aerial bombs on a shelter where civilians and rescue workers had taken refuge. Two rescue workers and a military medic who rushed to help the wounded were among those killed.
Separately, Ukrainian forces struck two Russian ammunition depots in Zaporizhzhia Oblast and a drone command post and a fuel and lubricants depot in Donetsk Oblast on November 5 and 6, Ukraine's General Staff said. The ammunition depots were near Melitopol and the settlement of Khliborobne, and the command post and fuel depot were near Chasiv Yar and Luhanske, all in Russian-occupied territory, according to the statement. The General Staff said the strikes were intended to weaken Russian firepower and disrupt supplies.
A Ukrainian drone attack set off fires and explosions across southern Russia overnight into November 6, monitoring channels reported. A fire broke out at the Afipsky Oil Refinery in Krasnodar Krai, according to the Ukrainian channel Exilenova Plus, which reported another wave of strikes in the early morning and explosions outside the city of Krasnodar and in the nearby Adygea Republic. Local authorities had not commented, and the Kyiv Independent said the details could not be immediately verified. The refinery, one of the largest in the region, was sanctioned by the EU in April for its role in Russia's war against Ukraine.
Ukraine's Defense Ministry said on November 6 that the military's unmanned ground vehicles completed a record 31,398 missions in October, citing data from the military's e-points system. The count, which includes logistics and evacuation missions, is more than four times the 7,511 missions recorded in January 2026. The ministry said heavy Russian first-person view drone use near the front line had barred traditional vehicles from logistics runs, rotations and casualty evacuations.