Russian Guided Bombs Kill 29 at Ukrainian Aid Centre in Komyshuvakha, 48 Still Missing

The death toll from a Russian guided-bomb attack on a humanitarian aid centre in the village of Komyshuvakha in Ukraine's southern Zaporizhzhia region rose to 29 on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, with 48 people still missing, according to Ukrainian regional and national officials.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russian forces first dropped bombs on a school in the village that was used as a shelter and for distributing humanitarian assistance. There were no classes at the school because the village lies close to the front line, south-east of the city of Zaporizhzhia. A second strike then hit a nearby shelter where people had gathered.

Mykhailo Semikin, acting head of the Zaporizhzhia regional military administration, confirmed the toll of 29 dead, including four police officers and two rescue workers. At least five people were being treated in hospital, among them two rescue workers. Emergency services earlier reported that two members of a rescue crew and four police officers were among the dead. Regina Kharchenko, secretary of the Zaporizhzhia city council, said 27 people were missing at one stage of the count; the figure later rose to 48.

Zelenskyy described the attack as utterly horrific. He said the Russians could not have been unaware that local residents who remained in Komyshuvakha received humanitarian aid at the school every week on Mondays. Efforts to rescue people on Monday evening were hindered when Russian drones launched additional attacks on the bombed area.

The guided-bomb strikes formed part of a broader barrage. Zelenskyy said Russia launched 289 attack drones, 17 ballistic missiles and 59 cruise missiles across nine regions overnight. The attacks triggered emergency power cuts, damaged hospitals and wounded scores of people. In the northeast Kharkiv region, a combined missile and drone attack wounded at least 62 people.

Zelenskyy noted that the barrage coincided with US midterm elections. He said the Russians think America will not notice this signal, but Ukraine needs continued help to defend its skies or Russia will not stop its missile strikes.

Search and rescue operations continued on Tuesday. Ukrainian emergency services published images of rescuers working amid rubble at the site. The village had been under repeated pressure because of its proximity to the front. The school had functioned as a weekly aid distribution point for residents who stayed behind.

The attack fits a pattern of Russian strikes on civilian infrastructure and gathering points that Ukrainian authorities have documented over the course of the war. Regional officials said the scale of the tragedy in Komyshuvakha was horrific. Power plants across multiple regions were also targeted in the overnight wave, compounding difficulties for emergency response.

No immediate comment from Russian officials on the specific strike was reported in the initial hours after the toll rose. Ukrainian authorities continued to update casualty figures as recovery work proceeded under threat of further drone activity.