Russian strikes cut Kyiv power and water as village death toll hits 40

Russian attacks on critical infrastructure caused power and water outages for hours Wednesday across Kyiv and surrounding regions, while President Volodymyr Zelensky said the death toll in a southern Ukrainian village rose to 40 in one of the deadliest strikes of the war. The strike on Monday hit a former school and shelter in Komyshuvakha, near the front line in the Zaporizhzhia region, as residents waited for humanitarian aid. Zelensky said 30 more people could still be buried in the rubble, and he criticized the world's weak response to the attack. Ukraine's air force reported downing or suppressing 272 of 310 drones launched overnight. Officials from the U.S., Germany, France, Britain, NATO and the EU were set to meet in Brussels to discuss postwar security and reconstruction ahead of new peace negotiations next week.