The death toll from a Russian strike on Komyshuvakha, in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Oblast, has risen to 43, according to a post by the Kyiv Independent on X. The outlet said search operations were continuing 1.
The post gave only the headline figure. It did not say how many people were injured, and the excerpt available does not name the official body that supplied the number 1. The toll has not been independently verified, and it rests on this one report.
An earlier report logged on 5 November said police stated the strike had killed at least 42 people. That report was classed as reported rather than confirmed, and its original text is not among the sources cited here. The new figure would be one higher than that count.
A separate report from 4 November described an airstrike on Komyshuvakha involving a FAB-3000 bomb, a heavy guided aerial bomb. That report was classed as corroborated. It is not established from the material here whether it concerns the same strike that produced the current death toll.
A further report from 3 November described a Russian attack on a Ukrainian aid distribution hub in a place spelled Kamyshevakha, in Kherson Oblast, reportedly killing 26 people. The spelling and region differ from Komyshuvakha in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, and it is unclear whether the reports relate to the same location or incident.
The strike came during a period of heavy Russian attacks on Ukraine. Reports over the preceding days, most of them unconfirmed, described more than 200 drones launched overnight on 5 November, damage to energy facilities and a major water outage in Kyiv. Russia has not been quoted in the available material on the Komyshuvakha strike.