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A young family was wiped out by a Russian drone strike in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region on Tuesday night, killing a father and his three young children, while the pregnant mother was the only survivor.
Kharkiv region governor Oleg Sinegubov said on Telegram that the attack on the city of Bohodukhiv claimed the lives of 34-year-old Grigory and his three children – 2-year-old twin boys, Ivan and Vladislav, and their 1-year-old sister Myroslava.
In an effort to escape the constant shelling, the family had evacuated to Zolochiv, a front-line town about 25 miles from the Russian border.
Sinegubov said he was spending his first night in his new home when the attack occurred.
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Following a drone strike in the city of Bohodukhiv in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine on February 11, 2026, which killed four people, including three children. (Carlo Bravo/Anadolu via Getty Images)
The children’s 35-year-old mother, Olga, who is 35 weeks pregnant, survived injuries and minor burns and was later released from hospital after receiving medical care.
“The Russian military once again targeted a civilian residential building in the middle of the night,” Sinegubov said. “Another terrorist act by a state fighting against the civilian population – against small children, pregnant women, the elderly.”
The Kharkiv regional prosecutor’s office said preliminary data indicated that a “Geran-2” drone was used in the attack.
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A resident touches a Russian-Iranian Martyr-136 (Geran-2) kamikaze drone installed in front of St. Michael’s Cathedral as part of an exhibition displaying destroyed Russian military vehicles and weapons in Kiev, Ukraine, on November 26, 2025. (Valentin Ogirenko/Reuters)
Geran-2 is the Russian designation for the Iranian-designed Martyr-136, a one-way attack drone that explodes on impact and has been widely used by Moscow to attack Ukrainian cities and infrastructure.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a post on Twitter on Wednesday that Russian forces carried out additional strikes along the border and border areas, including launching 470 attack drones into Kherson in a single day.
Damaged buildings and debris are seen after a drone strike in the city of Bohodukhiv in the Kharkiv region on February 11, 2026. (Carlo Bravo/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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“Gas supply restoration in the Donetsk region continues – even after the Russian attack. There were attacks on infrastructure in the Dnipro region in the Sinelnikov district,” he wrote. “Some consumers in Zaporizhia are currently without power after ‘martyrs’ strikes – restoration work underway.”
Zelensky said he has instructed military and community leaders to develop additional measures to strengthen the protection of critical infrastructure.
