Ukrainian Drone Barrage Kills at Least Six in Russia, Including 13-Year-Old Girl
Russian officials said 635 drones were downed over multiple regions as strikes killed children and hit an apartment building and a warehouse.
- On Sunday, August 2, a Ukrainian drone struck near a playground in Printsevka, a village in Russia's Belgorod Oblast, killing a 13-year-old girl and injuring two others, according to Governor Alexander Shavayev.
- The strike occurred as part of a major drone swarm launched into Russia on Sunday, killing at least six people. This followed Russian missile strikes on Kyiv one day earlier, which killed nine civilians.
- Shavayev expressed grief on Telegram, stating "no words can express the pain of losing a child," while Maria Lvova-Belova, Russia's commissioner for children's rights, denounced the strike as "another inhumane terrorist act by the Kyiv regime."
- The Russian Defense Ministry reported its forces downed 635 drones over multiple regions. Other Ukrainian strikes hit a Wildberries warehouse in Samara Oblast and targets in Saratov Oblast and Udmurt Republic.
- Civilian casualties have spiked in the fifth year of the conflict as both sides escalate long-range drone and missile attacks. Past strikes near playgrounds have killed children, including an April 2025 attack in Kryvyi Rih that killed nine children.
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A Ukrainian drone has hit a playground in Russia's border region of Belgorod, killing one child and wounding two others, in what Russian authorities have called an "inhumane terrorist act."
Recent drone strikes killing kids on Moscow playgrounds and beachside resorts reveals the callous nature of remote warfare
The mathematics of modern warfare has become chillingly simple: a drone operator thousands of miles away presses a button, and a 13-year-old girl playing near a playground in Printsevka, Russia, bleeds out in the arms of emergency workers who never expected such a rogue attack. This is not a video game. This is not a […]
Child killed in Ukrainian attack on playground
Two other girls were seriously wounded in the strike on Russia’s Belgorod Region, local officials have said A 13-year-old girl has been killed and two other children wounded after a Ukrainian drone struck near a playground in Russia’s Belgorod Region on Sunday, local officials have said. The attack occurred in the village of Printsevka in...
A child was killed and two other children were injured in a Ukrainian drone attack on Sunday at a playground in the Russian border region of Belgorod. This was announced by the acting governor of the region. A prominent Russian children's ombudsman called the incident an "inhuman act of terrorism".
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