A Russian drone strike in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region wiped out a young family on Tuesday evening, killing a father and his three small children, leaving a pregnant mother the only survivor.
Oleg Synegubov, the governor of the Kharkov region, 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 Vladyslav, and their 1-year-old sister Myroslava.
The family had just been evacuated from Zolochiv, a frontline town about 40 kilometers from the Russian border, in an attempt to escape the ongoing shelling.
They were spending their first night in their new home when the strike occurred, Synegubov said.
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The aftermath of a drone strike in the city of Bohodukhiv in the Kharkiv region that killed four people, including three children, on February 11, 2026 in Bohodukhiv, Ukraine. (Carlo Bravo/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Olga, the children’s 35-year-old mother, who is 35 weeks pregnant, survived with injuries and minor burns and was later released from hospital after medical attention.
“The Russian army again attacked an ordinary residential building in the middle of the night,” Synegubov said. “Another terrorist act by the state fighting against the civilian population – against small children, pregnant women, the elderly.”
The Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office said preliminary data indicate that a ‘Geran-2’ drone was used in the attack.
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A resident touches a Russian-Iranian Shahed-136 (Geran-2) kamikaze drone installed in front of St. Michael’s Cathedral as part of an exhibition of destroyed Russian military vehicles and weapons, in Kiev, Ukraine, November 26, 2025. (Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)
The Geran-2 is the Russian designation for an Iranian-designed Shahed-136, a one-way attack drone that explodes on impact and is widely used by Moscow to attack Ukrainian cities and infrastructure.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a post on X on Wednesday that Russian forces carried out additional attacks in border and frontline regions, including launching 470 attack drones on Kherson in one 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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“The restoration of gas supplies in the Donetsk region is underway – also after a Russian attack. There were attacks on infrastructure in the Dnipro region, in the Synelnykove district,” he wrote. “Some consumers are currently without electricity in Zaporizhia after ‘shahed’ strikes – restoration work is underway.”
Zelenskyy said he has instructed military and community leaders to develop additional measures to strengthen the protection of critical infrastructure.
