Russian attacks kill 4 in Ukraine, including child

An overnight barrage of Russian drones and missiles in Ukraine killed at least four people in cities across the country, including a 10-year-old boy, regional officials said Monday (Feb. 9, 2026).

AFP Journalists at the scene of a strike in the southern city of Odessa saw burned buildings and fire and emergency services working by flashlight to perform CPR on one of the victims.

The Ukrainian Air Force said Russia launched 11 ballistic missiles and 149 drones between Sunday evening (February 8) and the early hours of Monday (February 9).

Air defense units downed more than a hundred drones and several missiles, he added, without elaborating.

Russia, which invaded Ukraine nearly four years ago, bombed its neighbor as it joined the latest round of US-brokered talks to end Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War II.

said Mykhailo, a 32-year-old resident of the port city of Odessa, who lives on the fourth floor of a residential building that was damaged overnight. AFP His apartment windows were blown out and his car was damaged.

“First we heard Shahed’s buzz, and then a hit – and then another hit,” said the postal worker.

said a seventeen-year-old student named Mykhailo AFP As he stepped onto his balcony, he saw that the doorframe had been dislodged from the blast.

A 35-year-old man was killed and two others, including a 19-year-old woman, were injured, local officials in the city said.

Further north in the Kharkiv region, state emergency services said they recovered the bodies of a woman and a 10-year-old boy after a drone strike.

And a 71-year-old man was killed in his bed by Russian drones in the settlement of Novgorod-Siversky in northern Chernihiv region, local officials said.

While Washington wants to end the war by mid-year, Kyiv and Moscow remain at odds over territorial divisions, with Russia demanding full control of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region as part of any deal.

Russia occupies about 20% of Ukraine’s land.