A Russian drone kills a father and 3 children in Ukraine, and seriously injures a pregnant mother
Kyiv, Ukraine — A Russian drone crashed into a house in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region overnight, killing a father and his three young children and seriously wounding their mother, who was 35 weeks pregnant, officials said Wednesday.
The raid completely destroyed the house and set it on fire, while the family was trapped under the rubble, according to the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office.
Prosecutors said the 34-year-old father and his three children – two-year-old twins and their one-year-old sister – died, while rescue workers pulled the mother alive from the rubble.
They added that she suffered injuries from explosions, brain injuries, burns, and hearing loss.
The drone that struck the Kharkiv town of Pohodokhiv has been identified as a Jeeran-2, a Russian-made copy of an Iranian Shahed drone.
Russia launched 129 long-range drones into Ukraine last night, the Ukrainian air force said, as the war has continued for nearly four years. Invasion of Russia Its neighbor, despite the leadership of the United States Peace efforts.
On the other hand, the authorities said that a Ukrainian drone attack caused a fire in an industrial factory in the city of Volgograd.
The governor of the Volgograd region, Andrei Bocharov, said fragments of the drone also damaged a residential building.
Eight Russian airports briefly suspended flights overnight due to drone attacks, officials said.
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