Key facts
- A Russian drone strike in Sumy, Ukraine, killed three members of the same family.
- The victims included a 13-year-old boy and his father.
- A 73-year-old woman was also killed in the Sumy attack.
- Two other family members, the man's partner and 10-year-old son, were wounded.
- Another Russian drone strike in Zaporizhzhia killed a woman and wounded three people, including an 11-year-old boy.
- Ukraine reported shooting down most of the 88 Russian drones launched overnight.
A Russian drone strike on the city of Sumy in northeastern Ukraine killed three members of the same family, including a 13-year-old boy and his father, and wounded another two, a regional official said Monday.
Russia has pounded civilian areas of Ukraine with drones and missiles since its full-scale invasion began. The Sumy attack hit a home and killed a 36-year-old man, his 13-year-old son, and a 73-year-old woman, according to Oleh Hryhorov, the head of the regional military administration. The man’s partner and 10-year-old son were wounded.
Separately, a Russian nighttime drone strike killed a woman and wounded three people, including an 11-year-old boy, in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, regional head Ivan Fedorov said.
Ukraine’s air force reported that air defenses shot down or jammed 79 of the 88 long-range attack drones and one ballistic missile launched by Russia overnight. The Russian Defense Ministry stated its forces intercepted 301 Ukrainian drones during the night over multiple Russian regions, Crimea, the Azov Sea, and the Black Sea. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said 84 Ukrainian drones targeting the Russian capital were shot down.
All four Moscow airports temporarily halted flights in the wake of the attack, and some residential buildings were evacuated in Russia’s Vladimir and Tula regions.