KYIV — A Russian FPV drone struck Komyshuvakha on Sunday morning, hitting the village where rescue crews have spent seven days digging through the rubble of an aerial bomb strike that killed 55 people, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. More people may still be trapped under the debris, he said.
“Absolute cynicism and brutality,” Zelenskyy wrote.
The overnight attacks reached well beyond the village. In the Dnipro region, Russian forces struck energy infrastructure and left more than 600,000 people in the city of Dnipro and across the region without power, Zelenskyy said. The Kharkiv region is in a difficult position too, he said, and power outages are widespread across the country. In the Zhytomyr region alone, one Russian strike left 140 apartment buildings without heating. Repair crews are at work in virtually every affected city and community, he said, thanking energy and utility workers who are working around the clock to restore water, electricity and heating.
Zelenskyy put the week’s toll in one count. In the past week alone, he said, Russia launched 115 missiles of various types, nearly 1,900 guided aerial bombs and more than 3,000 attack drones against Ukrainian cities and communities — combined strikes that included many ballistic missiles.
A significant share of those missiles, Zelenskyy said, were manufactured this year. Ukraine regularly gives its partners information about the Russian enterprises involved in ballistic missile production, and in October it imposed major sanctions packages on the individuals and companies involved, he said. What matters now, he added, is that those sanctions be synchronized across Europe and the G7 countries.
If the world lacks enough anti-ballistic capability to protect Ukraine’s skies, Zelenskyy argued, “then the missiles must be stopped on the production lines.” He said Ukraine counts on a strong 22nd EU sanctions package, and he thanked the partners who are helping.
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