Russia Kills 26 at Zaporizhzhia School as Cyberattacks Hit Both Sides and Ukraine Blasts 3 Oil Refineries

A Russian strike hit a school in Komyshuvakha in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, where civilians were receiving aid, killing at least 26 people, with nine more bombs striking the school's shelter [277441]. The attack came days after a rare truce allowed civilians to leave occupied Oleshky [277441].

Cyberattacks struck Ukraine and, hours later, Russia, as the war's longest truce ended on Sunday [277480]. The truce was limited to Ukraine's Kherson region, and according to Kyiv, Russia refused an offer to extend it [277480]. Both countries reported cyberattacks on their air raid alert apps — tools that warn civilians of incoming danger, where an attack could put lives at risk [277217].

Ukrainian marines said the Oleshky truce saved hundreds of lives, but Russia used the pause to move fresh troops, armor, and fuel to within nine kilometers of Kherson [277451]. Drone footage also showed bodies being carried out of the town's hospital while Russian soldiers watched, according to the marines; a journalist said 47 bodies were taken from the hospital's basement to occupied Henichesk [277451].

Ukraine's military hit an oil hub in Russia's Samara region, the General Staff said [277453]. The station blends Urals crude, a grade that makes up as much as half of Russia's oil exports, and it was the first strike there since 11 October [277453]. Three Russian oil refineries have been struck since Friday — in Kstovo, Novokuibyshevsk, and Ufa — which together handle about 10 percent of Russia's total refining capacity and more than 10 percent of its diesel production, adding pressure on Russia's fuel supplies [276512].

Elsewhere, a Russian attack hit an energy facility in Kyiv on Friday evening, leaving four districts of the capital without electricity, according to the energy company DTEK [276244]. A Russian ballistic missile attack killed one person in Kyiv overnight, capping a day of violence that left at least 27 civilians dead across Ukraine and blacked out the city of Dnipro [275499]. A Russian strike on Chernihiv killed two 15-year-old girls and injured 25 people, local officials said [274785]. Russian overnight strikes injured four people in Zaporizhzhia and started fires in the Odesa region, with an industrial site in Odesa hit twice more while firefighters worked to put out the flames [272307].

Russian jet drones struck Kharkiv on consecutive days, injuring several people including a 4-year-old child; the first attack wounded five people, and the next day a drone hit the same district again, killing one person and injuring two others [274164]. Russian ballistic missiles also struck a Kyiv university campus, hitting a student dormitory in the evening, and hours later a second wave hit the Southern Bridge before sunrise [272933].

The UN commission concluded that Russia's strikes on Ukraine's power grid followed a state policy to deprive civilians of electricity and cause suffering, noting that Russian authorities had openly announced further attacks and referred to a plan to carry them out [272930].