A Russian Drone Strike in Ukraine Kills 3 From One Family, Including a 13-Year-Old Boy
The strike hit a home and prompted a war-crimes investigation as Ukraine said civilian casualties from Russian attacks have risen sharply.
- On Monday, a Russian drone strike in Sumy, Ukraine, killed a 36-year-old man, his 13-year-old son, and a 73-year-old woman, while wounding two others, regional military administration head Oleh Hryhorov said.
- Civilian casualties in Russian attacks have jumped recently, according to the Human Rights Monitoring Mission, with at least 274 killed and 1,763 injured in Ukraine during May, the highest monthly toll since 2022.
- Separately, a Russian nighttime drone strike in Zaporizhzhia killed a woman and wounded three people, including an 11-year-old boy, regional head Ivan Fedorov said.
- The Russian Defense Ministry reported intercepting 301 Ukrainian drones over multiple regions including Crimea, the Azov Sea, and the Black Sea, while Ukraine's air force reported shooting down or jamming 79 of 88 incoming Russian drones.
- Russia has pounded civilian areas since launching its invasion more than four years ago, with United Nations tallies indicating more than 16,000 civilians have died in the ongoing war.
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Russia keeps striking Ukraine’s northern border: this week, it killed three generations of one family
A Russian drone strike in Sumy Oblast on 22 June killed a 13-year-old boy, his 36-year-old father, and his 73-year-old grandmother, the Regional Prosecutor's Office reports. The boy's 31-year-old mother, his 10-year-old brother, and his 13-year-old sister survived the strike with injuries. The Sumy Oblast Prosecutor's Office opened a pre-trial investigation into a war crime. The strike killed three members of one family across three generations …
Russian drone strike in Ukraine kills three from one family, including 13-year-old boy
Russia has pounded civilian areas of Ukraine with drones and missiles since it launched its all-out invasion of its neighbour more than four years ago, and a United Nations tally says more than 16,000 civilians have died in the war
In the north-east of Ukraine, according to the authorities, a drone hits into a house and kills a boy, his father and his grandmother. Thus, mother and siblings survive injured. It is not the only attack at night.
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