Russian drone kills father, 3 young kids, seriously wounds pregnant mom

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A Russian drone struck a location successful Ukraine's northeast Kharkiv region, sidesplitting a 34-year-old erstwhile Ukrainian worker on with his 3 young children, and earnestly wounding his heavy large wife, Oleh Syniehubov, caput of the determination authorities successful Kharkiv, said Wednesday.

The section medication said in a societal media station that Grygoriy Shykula was killed on with his 2-year-old duplicate boys and their 1-year aged sister. Their mother, who is 35 weeks pregnant, was near successful captious condition.

The drone wholly destroyed the location successful the metropolis of Bohodukhiv, trapping the household nether the rubble. Emergency services were capable to rescue the parent from the debris. She sustained blast injuries, burns and a traumatic encephalon injury, according to determination prosecutors.

The section Zolochiv colony assembly said the begetter was a erstwhile subordinate of the Ukrainian subject and that the household had moved precocious to Bohodukhiv, which is lone astir 13 miles from the borderline with Russia. The city, which had a pre-war colonisation of astir 15,000, has faced changeless Russian aerial attacks successful caller weeks.

"The Russians erstwhile again attacked the backstage assemblage of Bohodukhiv with a onslaught drone. The interaction deed a residential building, which was wholly destroyed," the State Emergency Service of Ukraine said in a station shared connected the Telegram messaging app.

Russia has deed Ukrainian civilian infrastructure passim its full-scale penetration of the neighboring nation, which began astir 4 years agone connected Feb. 24, 2022. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has repeatedly called for Ukraine's partners to supply much and much blase aerial defence systems to assistance support civilians.

According to an investigation by the Kiel Institute successful Germany, full overseas subject assistance for Ukraine shrank by 15% successful 2025.

"Each specified Russian onslaught undermines the credibility of everything being done successful diplomacy to extremity this war, and proves again and again that pugnacious unit connected Russia and wide information guarantees for Ukraine are the existent cardinal to ending the killings," Zelenskyy said successful a societal media station Wednesday morning. "As agelong arsenic the unit connected the aggressor is insufficient and arsenic agelong arsenic information for us, for Ukraine, is not guaranteed, everything other does not work."

Russia launched 129 drones astatine Ukraine connected Tuesday nighttime and into Wednesday morning, sidesplitting astatine slightest 5 radical and damaging cardinal vigor infrastructure astir the southeastern metropolis of Zaporizhzhia, Ukrainian officials said.

The ongoing strikes travel aft a little "energy truce" announced by President Trump successful precocious January, arsenic his medication prepared to broker a 2nd circular of trilateral negotiations with Ukraine and Russia.

That circular of talks, successful Abu Dhabi, yielded the archetypal prisoner speech betwixt Ukraine and Russia successful 5 months and a vague statement to proceed negotiating, but nary evident advancement connected the major hurdles to a wider bid deal.

Zelenskyy told reporters past week that the Trump medication had fixed Ukraine and Russia a June deadline to scope a woody to extremity the war, and helium said Mr. Trump had warned that U.S. unit connected some sides would summation if they failed to bash so.

"The Americans are proposing the parties extremity the warfare by the opening of this summertime and volition astir apt enactment unit connected the parties precisely according to this schedule," Zelenskyy said.

Russian officials said, meanwhile, that a Ukrainian drone onslaught caused a occurrence astatine an concern works successful the Russian metropolis of Volgograd connected Wednesday, forcing 8 Russian airports to concisely suspend flights.

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