Russian air strikes on a school in Komyshuvakha, in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, killed at least 29 people on 2 November, and another 48 are listed as missing. Overnight into 3 November, Russia also hit a hospital in Kharkiv, injuring 62 people, and on the morning of 3 November it wounded five people in Dnipro.
Komyshuvakha, Zaporizhzhia region
On 2 November, Russian aircraft carried out a series of strikes on the village. One of the targets was a school where aid was handed out every week to people who had stayed in the village.
By the evening of 2 November, 26 people were known to have died, among them two rescuers and four police officers. Five people were injured, two of them State Emergency Service (DSNS) staff. On the morning of 3 November, acting head of the regional military administration Mykhailo Semykin said the death toll had risen to 29, with 48 people missing.
The dead rescuers are Denys Konovalenko and Oleksii Sushchevskyi, both 44. "Вони щодня виїжджали на допомогу людям, працювали в небезпечних умовах і ризикували власним життям, щоб рятувати інших," said DSNS chief Andrii Danyk. President Volodymyr Zelensky said most of the victims were civilians who had come for humanitarian aid.
Kharkiv
Overnight into 3 November, a Russian strike hit the walkway between buildings of a hospital in the Nemyshlianskyi district. Sixty-two people were hurt.
The building of one of the wards was damaged, as were the windows of four multi-storey apartment blocks and ten cars. Now 226 patients are being moved to other hospitals.
Dnipro
On the morning of 3 November, Russian strikes wounded five people in Dnipro. All are in hospital, and two men aged 80 and 81 are in a serious condition.
Houses in the city were also damaged.
Russia has waged a full-scale war on Ukraine since February 2022, and its strikes on towns and villages kill civilians, rescuers and police officers.
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