Russia just bombed a Ukrainian shelter and its own bodycam caught the warning
1 hour ago · 4 November 2026Share
Destruction of a five-story building in the settlement of Komyshuvakha. File photo. Вадим Балачук · CC0
A Russian bomb hit a shelter in Komyshuvakha, in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, two days ago. At least 37 people are dead.
And now there's bodycam footage. Shot by a police officer. One who died in the same strike.
Ukraine's National Police released it two days after the attack. Reuters has checked it and confirmed it's real.
So what does it show?
The school in Komyshuvakha wasn't even a school anymore. It was too close to the front line for that. So it had become a shelter instead, and the place where people came once a week to collect aid. The front line sits about 17 to 20 kilometres away.
Here's the footage. A woman's voice asks, Misha, is it coming again? Then a police radio cuts in: Guided aerial bombs heading towards Komyshuvakha! Take shelter! You see 15 to 20 people in civilian clothes outside the shelter entrance. They run for the stairs. Then a huge explosion. The screen goes black.
That's as far as the footage goes. It does not show where the bomb actually landed.
And here's the part that makes this a double strike, not one. Russian forces hit Komyshuvakha twice. The first bomb hit people as they arrived for aid. The second hit later, on the underground shelter where civilians, police and rescue workers had gone for cover. Some of those people had only just run in to help after the first strike.
Volodymyr Zelensky says Russia dropped nine aerial bombs on that shelter in the second strike. Ukrainian police say one of them was a three-ton FAB-3000. That's a bomb carrying more than 1,000 kilograms of explosives, with a blast radius of up to 250 metres.
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Komyshuvakha, Zaporiz'ka oblast, Ukraine. File photo. dementevalexei · CC BY 3.0
Among the dead are two rescue workers. Ukraine's State Emergency Service names them as Denys Konovalenko and Oleksii Sushchevskyi, both 44. Four police officers died too. One of them was wearing the bodycam.
Now the death toll, and it isn't settled. Ukrainian sources — the National Police, the State Emergency Service, the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration — say 37 confirmed dead, two days on from the strike. That figure comes from Mykhailo Semikin, the acting head of the regional military administration. A Reuters update the same day put it at 40. Ivan Fedorov, who co-chairs the Zaporizhzhia Regional Defence Council, says 59 people are listed as missing. Police say 12 of the dead have been identified so far. They're collecting DNA from relatives to identify the rest. And they say as many as 38 people could still be under the rubble.
Russia tells a different account entirely. Its Defence Ministry says the strike hit Ukrainian military units around Komyshuvakha and two other settlements, and says up to 25 Ukrainian soldiers died. Ukrainian police reject that. They say the footage shows civilians and emergency responders sheltering, not soldiers. Neither account has been checked independently. Both Russia and Ukraine say they don't deliberately target civilians.
Volodymyr Zelensky calls it a vile terrorist strike. He says it's further proof that Russia doesn't want any kind of de-escalation, or any real justice.
And the timing matters here. This strike came a day after a short, US-brokered local ceasefire in the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky ran out. That truce, arranged by US First Lady Melania Trump, had let nearly 800 people get out.
Zaporizhzhia Oblast has declared three days of mourning, running from two days ago to today.
So what does this footage actually add? Not a new death toll. What it gives you is what a double strike on a shelter looks like from inside it. People being warned. People running. Then the screen going black.
What it can't tell you: exactly where the bomb landed. Whether anyone inside was a soldier, as Russia says. Rescue teams are still digging. The final death toll still isn't settled.
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