Russian overnight drone attacks killed at least three people in Ukraine’s east and south on Monday (9 February), with officials reporting casualties in the Kharkiv, Odesa and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
Prosecutors in the Kharkiv region said a mother and her 10-year-old son were killed when drones struck a residential area in the town of Bohodukhiv.
Six people were injured in the wider regional attack, which authorities noted has become a frequent target in the conflict that began with Russia’s invasion in 2022.
Odesa’s regional governor Oleh Kiper said a massive drone strike on the southern port city killed one person and wounded two.
The head of the Odesa City Military Administration, Serhiy Lysak, said the attack sparked a fire in a multi-storey residential building and damaged a gas pipeline, with several cars also set ablaze across the city.
Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said a 35-year-old man was killed and two others, including a 19-year-old woman, were injured.
The strike damaged 21 apartments in a residential building in the city’s Prymorskyi district.
In the Dnipropetrovsk region, governor Oleksandr Hanzha said nine people, including a 13-year-old girl, were injured after a drone hit a three-storey building, causing a fire that destroyed the roof.
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