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Russia says Ukraine strike killed three aid volunteers in occupied area
AFP, Moscow
Published: 25 Sep 2026, 05:11 PM
A woman in Donetsk stands outside a supermarket damaged by a Ukrainian strike. Photo: Collected
Russia on Friday said a Ukrainian strike killed three people in the Moscow-occupied part of the southern Ukrainian Zaporizhzhia region.
Both sides have upped strikes in a fifth year of war, with
diplomacy so far failing to end Europe's worst conflict since World War II.
Kremlin-installed official Yevgeny Balitsky said "three
volunteers from (Russia's) Omsk region were killed as a result of a cynical
terrorist attack on a civilian vehicle delivering humanitarian aid" near
the village of Novobogdanivka.
One more person was wounded, Balitsky said.
The village lies north of the city of Melitopol, which fell
to Russia in the first days of its offensive.
Russia controls the southern part of the Zaporizhzhia region.
US-led talks to end the Ukraine-Russia war, which began with
Moscow's 2022 attack, have so far not led to a breakthrough.
The Kremlin has repeatedly said Moscow is intent on seizing the rest of eastern Ukraine.