Komyshuvakha Toll Reaches 43 as Rescuers Search for 33 More and Brussels Talks End With Postwar Funding in View

There is also a thread of survival. Zaporizhzhia police chief Artem Kysko said seven residents once listed as missing had been found alive and uninjured, Euromaidan Press reported, the last of them a 56-year-old woman, Olha, located on the fourth day.

What happened in the war overnight and at the Brussels talks?

Ukraine's air force said it shot down or suppressed 105 of 128 Russian attack drones launched overnight into Thursday, with four people wounded in the Dnipropetrovsk and Kyiv regions, according to the Associated Press. Russia's Defence Ministry said it downed 496 Ukrainian drones over 13 Russian regions, Crimea and the Black and Azov seas; falling debris in Ryazan damaged power lines and started a fire at an industrial site, wounding one person. Russia's Moscow-backed leader in Luhansk said a Ukrainian attack on a bus in occupied territory killed five and wounded 13, a claim we have not been able to verify independently.

In Brussels, a second day of talks at NATO headquarters ended with officials from the United States, Britain, France, Germany and the EU discussing postwar reconstruction, 2027 funding and security guarantees. Ukraine's lead negotiator, Rustem Umerov, said World Bank and BlackRock representatives attended, and Jared Kushner called the meeting productive and substantive. The European Commission sent Ukraine 4.4 billion euros from a 90 billion euro loan agreed in April.

Zelensky said the negotiations must move forward at full throttle. The next step is the meeting of Russian, Ukrainian and US negotiators in Abu Dhabi, for which the associated reports gave no dates. Until then, the figure from Komyshuvakha is the one that will keep changing.