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Ukraine’s national police have released bodycam footage they say shows the moments between two Russian bomb strikes that killed at least 40 people at an aid centre and a shelter in the southern village of Kamyshuvakha. The BBC reported that the video was recorded by a camera on one of the police officers killed in the attack.
The footage shows residents going to an underground shelter after the first strike on Monday. A blast is heard moments later, flames appear, and the recording stops as the shelter is hit.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said more than 30 people may still be trapped under the rubble as a search operation continued for a third day. Ukraine said nine glide bombs, some weighing 3,000kg, struck the village while people had gathered to receive humanitarian aid.
Released on Wednesday, the video shows extensive destruction after the first strike, including damaged buildings and residents looking at the rubble. A military official is heard over a two-way radio warning police that more glide bombs are being launched towards Kamyshuvakha.
“Quickly, go to the shelter!” one police officer tells residents as they walk into a shelter at least two floors underground. Ukraine said it was near a local school being used to distribute humanitarian aid.
BBC Verify confirmed that the video was filmed at the same location as footage released by Ukraine’s state emergencies service, DSNS, showing the aftermath of Monday’s attack in Komyshuvakha.
In a social media post on Wednesday, Zelensky said Russia had dropped nine aerial bombs. “First, they hit people who came to receive humanitarian aid, and then rescuers and police officers who arrived at the scene,” he said.
Zelensky added that there had been “very little reaction from the world to this insane attack”. He described it as another of “thousands” of war crimes committed by Russia.
Ukraine’s DSNS earlier released another video showing a large crater left by the attack. The Russian military has not publicly commented.
Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Additional reporting by Paul Brown, BBC Verify.
