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Death toll hits 29 after Russian strike on Ukrainian aid site, with 48 still missing · Best of: Features

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  Death toll hits twenty nine after Russian strike on Ukrainian aid site,
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  with forty eight still missing, Written by Derek Gatopoulos. This article
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  is being read by an automated voice generated by Everlet. Kyiv, Ukraine,
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  the AP. The death toll from a Russian attack in southern leather
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  Ukraine on a site where people had gathered to receive humanitarian aid
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  rose to twenty nine on Tuesday, with forty eight still missing, as
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  a wave of overnight strikes targeted power plants across the country, damaged
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  hospitals and wounded scores of people. Dozens of rescuers and volunteers continued
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  to search the cratered blast site of a destroyed aid facility and
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  shelter in Komushuvaka, a village in Ukraine's southern Zaporizhia region, hoping to
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  find missing residents alive under the rubble. Instead, more bodies were pulled
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  out and carried away in white plastic sheeting. The scale of the
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  tragedy is terrifying. Mikhailo Semikin, acting head of the region's military administration,
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  wrote in an online post. This is one of The
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  worst tragedies in terms of the number of civilian victims in our
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  region since the start of the full scale war. Russia launched two
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  hundred and eighty nine attack drones, seventeen ballistic missile and fifty nine
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  cruise missiles across nine regions, triggering emergency power cuts, President Volodymyr Zelensky
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  said in an online post that noted the barrage coincided with US
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  elections. The Russians think America won't notice this signal of theirs, he
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  said. But we need to notice and stop such terror. We need
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  to help Ukraine defend its skies. Otherwise, Russia will never stop its
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  missile strike
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  Three days of mourning were declared in Zaperežia, where Russian bunker busting
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  bombs, filled with nearly one point five tons of explosives, were used
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  in Monday's attack. The dead included four police officers and two rescue
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  workers, Semekin said Tuesday. At least five people were hurt. In the
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  northeast region of Kharkiv, a combined Russian missile and drone attack wounded
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  at least sixty two people, local authorities said. A strike damaged a
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  medical facility in the Nemeshiliansky district, shattered windows in four apartment buildings,
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  and damaged cars. More than two hundred patients were transferred to other
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  medical facilities. Head of the Regional Military Administration, Olysinya Hubov, said In
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  the Dnipro area, rescuers pulled a woman alive from the rubble Tuesday
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  morning. After a Russian attack killed one person and wounded seventeen, local
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  authorities said. The attack damage an outpatient clinic and a hospital. Patients
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  were transferred to other hospitals. Oleksander Hanja, head of the Regional Military
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  Administration, said Russia's Ministry of Defense said Tuesday.
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  That it had shot down eight hundred and fifty six Ukrainian drones
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  overnight. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said four hundred and ninety three drones
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  were fired toward the Russian capital. A Ukrainian drone attack wounded two
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  employees at an oil refinery in the Russian city of Yaroslav, Regional
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  Governor Mikhail Yevreev said Tuesday. He added that there was damage to
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  the refinery's infrastructure. Rolling blackouts have been instituted in the south, west,
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  and east of Russian occupied Crimea following attacks on energy infrastructure, Moscow
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  installed officials said Tuesday. Elise Morton and Brian Melley in London contributed
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