Russian forces bombed an aid center in Ukraine, killing at least 29 people, according to Ukrainian officials, as the United States announced plans for new peace talks on Nov. 10-11. The aid center, at a school in the village of Komyshuvakha in the Zaporizhzhia region, had been closed to students because the village is too close to the front line, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday. Instead, it served as a shelter and weekly distribution point for aid packages, which residents remaining in the town picked up every Monday. List of recommended stories of 4 articlesend of list “The Russians attacked first just as the people arrived: some aerial bombs,” he said in his evening speech. “Then there was a second attack: more aerial bombs, this time against the shelter. A vile terrorist attack.” Zelenskyy said Russians could not ignore that residents remaining in Komyshuvakha gathered every week to collect humanitarian packages. Acting regional governor Mykhailo Semikin confirmed that at least 29 people were killed and another 48 were considered missing. Among the dead were two members of a rescue team and four police officers, according to Ukraine’s emergency services. Five people, including two rescue workers, were being treated in hospitals. Photos posted online showed smoldering debris strewn across the area. Warnings of a new “massive attack” There was no immediate comment from Russia. Zelenskyy said the attack was “further proof that Russia does not want any kind of de-escalation, any real justice.” He argued that Moscow had squandered an opportunity created by a humanitarian mission last week in Oleshky, a Russian-occupied south. city, which was mediated by the First Lady of the United States, Melania Trump. “If Russia really wanted a reduction in tension, after the situation in Oleshky there was an opportunity to continue taking humanitarian measures,” he said. “We proposed this. But Russia continues to kill people.” Zelenskyy also said Ukrainian intelligence had warned that Russia was preparing a new “massive attack” against the country’s energy and logistics networks, timed to coincide with the US midterm elections on Tuesday. to end this war.” Talks in Abu Dhabi Hours after the attack, US special envoy Steve Witkoff said Ukrainian and Russian delegations would meet in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, on November 10 and 11. In a social media post, Witkoff said the talks would address “post-war security agreements, de-escalation, humanitarian measures and ending the war.” Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to the new round of three-way talks after meeting Witkoff in St. Petersburg on October 21. The talks come as US negotiators seek a breakthrough before winter in the war, now in its fifth year. The last US-brokered talks took place in February, before the US and Israel launched their war against Iran. Russia’s return to elite international sport, after the Court of Arbitration for Sport ordered Russia reinstated in major ice hockey competitions. “Russia deserves condemnation, isolation and consequences, not a return to international respectability,” Sybiha wrote in In the Black Sea port of Odessa, five people were injured when a warehouse was hit and nearby houses were damaged. Russia’s Defense Ministry said its forces had shot down 212 Ukrainian drones overnight. The governor of Russia’s Samara region, Vyacheslav Fedorishchev, said air defenses had repelled an attack there, but gave no further details.
