Russia Bombs an Aid Center and a Shelter in Southern Ukraine, Killing 26, Officials Say
Ukrainian authorities said Russian bombs hit an aid distribution center and a neighboring shelter in southern Ukraine after a limited ceasefire in the Kherson region expired Monday, killing 26 people — on a day when both countries also reported cyberattacks on their emergency alert apps.
Russian bomb attacks on an aid distribution center and a neighboring shelter in southern Ukraine have killed 26 people, Ukrainian authorities said, in a strike the Associated Press reported in its late-evening summary on Monday.
The attacks came after a limited ceasefire expired Monday in Ukraine's southern Kherson region, the AP reported. The ceasefire agreement between Ukraine and Russia had allowed humanitarian aid and evacuation missions into front-line areas in Russian-occupied territory — the kind of mission the aid center was part of.
Earlier in the day, Ukraine and Russia had reported cyberattacks on their emergency alert apps. In Ukraine, users received false warnings of dangerously high radiation levels, a chemical threat and public disturbances in Kyiv, the AP reported, while Russian officials said hackers had sent fake alerts through its emergency ministry's app.
The two threads — false alerts in the morning, real bombs after the ceasefire lapsed — land on the eve of the American midterm elections, in a war that has run through this entire election season as an argument about prices, energy and America's place in the world. Texas voters go to the polls Tuesday with that war's cost in fuel and food still on the ballot in everything but name.
No further details from the scene were reported in the AP file read this cycle, and none are asserted here: the death toll is Ukrainian authorities' figure, as the AP presented it, and the story will be updated as officials on the ground report more.
