Ukraine Releases Bodycam Footage From Komyshuvakha, Where a Russian Strike Killed at Least 42

Ukraine's National Police has released bodycam footage from one of the officers who helped evacuate residents of Komyshuvakha, in the Zaporizhzhia region. A Russian strike on the settlement on November 2 killed more than 40 people. According to the police, the officer whose camera recorded the events was among those killed.

The video (which shows people dying) captures officers ordering residents into a shelter after a warning of another attack by KABs, guided aerial bombs. Residents go down into the shelter, and in the final seconds of the recording its ceiling collapses.

What is known about the strike

The Russian military hit Komyshuvakha twice with aerial bombs on November 2, striking the building of a former school. By the morning of November 4, 42 deaths had been confirmed, and about 30 more people may still be under the rubble.

Ukrainian authorities say humanitarian aid was being handed out at the former school building on the day of the strike, and residents had come to collect it. Children from Komyshuvakha were evacuated in June, and the school was no longer operating. After the first strike, people took cover in the shelter, which Russian forces then hit with a second airstrike.

Russian propaganda claims the strike targeted units of Ukraine's armed forces. Russian "military correspondents" wrote, among other things, about a drone control point. The source offers no evidence for these claims.