Ukraine releases bodycam footage from Komyshuvakha, where at least 42 people were killed in a Russian strike. The officer who filmed it was among the dead.

Source: Ukraine's National Police

Ukraine’s National Police released bodycam footage from one of the officers who took part in evacuating residents of Komyshuvakha, in the Zaporizhzhia region, where a Russian strike killed more than 40 people.

In the video (Warning: The footage shows people dying), officers order residents into a shelter after a warning comes in of another strike by KABs, guided aerial bombs. Residents go down into the shelter, and in the final seconds of the recording, its ceiling collapses. The officer whose camera recorded the events was killed, the National Police said.

The Russian military struck Komyshuvakha, in the Zaporizhzhia region, with aerial bombs twice on November 2, hitting the building of a former school. As of the morning of November 4, 42 people had been confirmed killed in Komyshuvakha, and about 30 more may remain under the rubble, according to data.

Russian propaganda claimed the strike on Komyshuvakha targeted Ukrainian armed forces units. Russian “military correspondents,” in particular, wrote about a drone control point.

Ukrainian authorities said that on the day of the strike, humanitarian aid was being distributed at the former school building (children from Komyshuvakha had already been evacuated in June, and the school was no longer in operation), and residents had gone there to receive it. After the first strike, people his in the shelter, which Russian forces then hit with a second airstrike.

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