Russian strike on Zaporizhzhia aid point kills 50

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The death toll from Russia's bombing of an aid distribution point in Ukraine's southeastern Zaporizhzhia region on Monday has risen to 50, Kyiv's Emergency Service said on Friday, making it one of the deadliest strikes on civilians this year. Search and rescue work at the site in the village of Komyshuvakha entered its fifth day, with eight more bodies pulled from the rubble. Kyiv says Russia hit a former school building as civilians gathered for weekly humanitarian aid distributions. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Moscow struck an underground shelter with people inside, and the UN's human rights mission said the attack likely violated international law. The strike followed the end of the longest ceasefire between the two sides in the Kherson region.


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